Abstract: Frontal instabilities were observed along a density front on the cyclonic boundary of an upwelling filament that formed north of Pt. Arguello, California in October 1983. Observations of the instabilities were conducted ...

Abstract: Isolated compact anticyclonic eddies or salt lenses were found in the Canary Basin. Hydrographic surveys of three such lenses show large anomalies of salinity and temperature (?0.8, 2.5°C). They are centered at ?1100 m, ...

Abstract: With the objective of measuring convergence directly to confirm previous observations of frontal subduction, a seaward upwelling jet off central California was studied using satellite infrared images, hydrographic sections, ...

Abstract: Data from four cruises to the ??-triangle? centered at 27°N, 32°30?W were smoothed by fitting second-degree polynomials at each of about 30 different density surfaces. The density intervals were ?σp=0.3?, corresponding to ...

Abstract: ross-barrier density differences and westerly flow established a descending stratified flow across the Sierra Nevada (United States) on 9?10 April 2006. Downslope flow and an internal hydraulic jump occurred only when the ...

Abstract: combination of real and virtual topography is shown to be crucial to describe the essentials of stratified flow over mountain ranges and leeside valleys. On 14 March 2006 [Intensive Observation Period 4 of the Terrain-Induced ...

Abstract: The potential for a stably stratified air mass upstream of the Sierra Nevada (California) to descend as foehn into the nearly 3-km-deep Owens Valley was studied for the 2 March 2006 case with observations from sondes, ...

Abstract: The hydraulics of flow contained in a channel and having nonuniform potential vorticity is considered from a general standpoint. The channel cross section is rectangular and the potential vorticity is assumed to be prescribed ...

Abstract: The hypothesis that variations in eddy diffusivity may account for some aspects of the observed distributions of oceanic scalars is examined by generating solutions to the diffusion equation with spatially variable and/or ...