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6. Rigid lid streamfunction method

The rigid lid streamfunction method was developed by Bryan (1969). This chapter presents the formulation of the rigid lid in a fashion to closely parallel the derivation given for the free surface in Chapter 7.

6.1 The barotropic streamfunction
6.2 Streamfunction and volume transport
6.3 Hydrostatic pressure with the rigid lid
6.4 The barotropic vorticity equation
6.5 Boundary conditions and island integrals
6.6 The baroclinic mode
6.7 Summary of the rigid lid streamfunction method
6.8 Rigid lid surface pressure method

RC Pacanowski and SM Griffies, GFDL, Jan 2000