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In Chapter 1 it was noted that variations in density which arise from the differential heating of the atmosphere and oceans are responsible for the circulations of both systems. Even the wind-driven oceanic circulation implicitly requires atmospheric buoyancy forces to produce the wind. In addition, the presence of a stable stratification in which heavier fluid underlies lighter, characteristic of both the atmosphere and the oceans, inhibits vertical motion and strongly affects the nature of the dynamics. It is also clear from the discussion in Section 2.9 that the vertical structure of the winds and currents is directly related to the presence and strength of horizontal density gradients by the thermal wind relation.
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Pedlosky, J. (1982). Quasigeostrophic Motion of a Stratified Fluid on a Sphere. In: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Springer study edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-25730-2_6
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