2021/11/27 by Vitalii A. Sheremet, Sheremet, Vitalii A., Arham Amin Khan +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Energy · Engineering · #Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Global Energy and Sustainability Research #Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2111.13810
openalex publication_date 2021/11/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is known that western boundary currents, which encounter a gap in their supporting boundary, assume two dominant steady states: a loop current state and a gap leaping state, and that transitions between these states display hysteresis. However, a question of whether the idealized geometries considered to date apply to the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current (LC) remained. Here, the nonlinear potential vorticity advection-diffusions equations are solved, for Gulf of Mexico topography, using Newton's Method. We demonstrate that, in application to the LC in the Gulf of Mexico, the original conclusions do hold and additionally describe peculiarities of the more realistic steady states that have implications for the LC modeling and forecasting.