Shelf Currents within Different Oceans Under the Sun-Moon Gravitation

Abstract

Zhiren Wang

Here, I employed the shelf properties and sizes of different basins and introduced the Sun-Moon gravitation into the dynamical equations to dynamically explain the differences existing in the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio systems. In addition to the classic western-boundary intensification of the western boundary currents that fails to explain why the differences in currents and ENSO significance exist among different oceans, shelf properties and sizes of different basins may produce another westernboundary intensification of the western boundary currents under the Sun-Moon gravitation.

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