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- Wind Stress
- Homoclinic Orbit
- Gulf Stream
- Pitchfork Bifurcation
- Subpolar Gyre
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Pedlosky, J. (1987). Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. 2nd Edn. Springer-Verlag, New York.
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Pedlosky, J. (1996). Ocean Circulation Theory. Springer, New York.
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Simonnet, E., Ghil, M., and Dijkstra, H. A. (2005). Homoclinic bifurcations of barotropic QG double-gyre flows. J. Mar. Res. sub judice.
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(2005). The Wind-Driven Circulation. In: Nonlinear Physical Oceanography. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2263-8_5
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