Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4535350 Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 2008 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

In this paper the origin of the bi-monthly variability in the Mascarene Basin is reconsidered. Free oscillatory modes of the Mascarene Basin are determined by performing normal mode analysis on the motionless solution in a barotropic shallow-water model with realistic bathymetry. Several modes are identified with monthly to bi-monthly time scales. The mode that agrees best with recent current meter observations can be interpreted as a barotropic Rossby basin mode, confined to the tilted geometry of the Mascarene Basin.

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