This suggests that the eddy momentum transfer may play an important role on the maintenance mechanism of the NSCC. On the other hand, eddy activity is not so strong to the SSCC. The different mechanisms may generate and maintain the North and South SCC. Quantitative analysis for the eddy momentum and potential vorticity transfer and budget is left as a future work.
Acknowledgment
We would like to thank the members of the Scientific Computing Division for use of the super computer NEC SX-4 of the JAMSTEC. The members of the Ocean Research Dept. of JAMSTEC constantly discussed this research with us. We express our gratitude to them.
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