Abstract: The sensitivity of the separation of the western boundary current of an idealized single gyre circulation to the specification of various model parameters is investigated through a series of quasigeostrophic simulations. ...

Abstract: The effect of seamounts on Gulf Stream-like flow is examined using a quasi-geostrophic modal model that is spun-up from rest with idealized wind forcing. A flat-bottom simulation that resolves the flow with two vertical ...

Abstract: Results from a set of 2- and 3-mode quasi-geostrophic simulations are used to estimate the predictability time scale of a Gulf Stream-like flow and investigate the sensitivity of the predictability time scale to changes ...

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Abstract: Simulations of the oceanic mixed layer at Ocean Weather Ship Papa are used to study the sensitivity of the 30-day predictions of mixed-layer depth and temperature to the time resolution and averaging of the atmospheric ...

Abstract: Shifts in location and strength of an intense oceanic flow such as the Gulf Stream to a cross-stream gradient in cooling are studied using two-dimensional numerical simulations. The gradient in cooling is imposed by removing ...

Abstract: The three-dimensional response of strong currents to cross-stream gradients of surface cooling is studied using numerical simulations. In particular, surface cooling is explored as a possible mechanism for explaining an ...

Abstract: The effect of errors and biases in the atmospheric forcing for oceanic mixed layer model predictions is studied using data sensitivity techniques. First the bulk model of Garwood is used to predict 17 years of mixed layer ...

Abstract: A linear model on an equatorial ? plane is integrated over a 120-day period in a basin that approximates the tropical Atlantic Ocean. An increase in the westward wind stress of 0.025 N m?2 in the western Atlantic excites ...

Abstract: The time-varying meridional Ekman heat transport for the World Ocean is calculated for the 30-year period 1960?1989 using wind stress and sea surface temperature data from the Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set The ...