Abstract: A Lagrangian one-dimensional model is used to study the subduction of Subpolar Mode Water in the eastern North Atlantic and to analyze recently observed hydrological features related to this process. Considering a southward ...

Abstract: A mechanism is proposed, based on the assumption of ventilation, to explain the middepth northward flow observed in the North Atlantic. The main feature of the solution is that the outcropping line of an intermediate layer ...

Abstract: Hydrographic surveys carried out in 1983?84 along both sides of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between 24° and 53°N provide a detailed description of the well-known North Atlantic water masses with particular emphasis on their ...

Abstract: Numerical experiments are carried out on the f plane, using a shallow-water isopycnal model, to analyze the behavior of a surface-intensified anticyclonic vortex when it encounters an isolated seamount. The advection by ...

Abstract: Numerical experiments are carried out on the f plane, using a shallow-water isopycnal model, to analyze the behavior of a surface-intensified anticyclonic vortex when it encounters an isolated seamount. The advection by ...

Abstract: The behavior of the intense anticyclonic eddy observed during the Tourbillon Experiment (September-November 1979) is studied within the framework of quasi-geostrophic dynamics. The nondivergent part of the pressure held ...

Abstract: The possibility for a preexisting surface-intensified anticyclone to subduct beneath a surface front is investigated using an isopycnal numerical model. Subduction occurs for strong coherent vortices and is usually accompanied ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the behavior of a surface-intensified anticyclone encountering a seamount on the ? plane in a stratified ocean. The eddy may be strongly eroded, and sometimes subdivided, provided that it gets close ...

Abstract: The monthly mean velocity, salinity, and temperature fields of a numerical simulation of the World Ocean climatological circulation are used to study the intensity and pathways associated with the meridional overturning ...

Abstract: Monthly mean velocity fields from a global ocean general circulation model are used to study the main circulation patterns within the upper 1200 m of the equatorial Atlantic. Some recently developed Lagrangian techniques ...