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Henry Stommel’s 1948 paper “The westward intensification of wind-driven ocean currents” began a new era in the study of ocean circulation because it suggested that the latitudinal variation of the Coriolis parameter so strongly constrained ocean flows that a great deal could be learned about them by isolating horizontal processes in a single layer model of the circulation and thus having to solve only two dimensional rather than three dimensional flow problems. The formal problem posed in this paper and its successors was solution, with appropriate boundary conditions at the coasts, of some truncation of the midlatitude barotropic vorticity equation
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Hendershott, M.C. (1987). Single Layer Models of the General Circulation. In: Abarbanel, H.D.I., Young, W.R. (eds) General Circulation of the Ocean. Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4636-7_5
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