In contrast, the inflow of bottom water and its spreading path throughout both South and North Pacific is well described. The Sverdrup balance is shown to hold widely in the model interior. Utilizing the complete depth-integrated vorticity equation it is found that bottom pressure torques balance the advection of planetary vorticity in both surface and bottom intensified western boundary currents. The report is available as a Portable Document Format or gzipped PostScript file. However, accurate models need very powerful computers and, for this reason, it is expected that a lot more use will be made of array processor computing.
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Accepted for publication in the refereed proceedings. In the past ocean modelling has been restricted to coarse resolutions and to limited areas, for example the Antarctic. The arrival of powerful array processors is allowing global studies at resolutions high enough to resolve eddies in the ocean. The equation of state algorithms used by the FRAM model Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Internal Document No. 313. The Eckart equation of state that had been used previously was found to produce significant errors at high latitudes.