Abstract: An isopycnal ocean model forced by NCEP?NCAR reanalysis wind stresses and heat fluxes is used to study the interdecadal variability of the Pacific Ocean in the 1958?97 period. A reasonable agreement is found between the ...

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Abstract: Data from an eight-layer FNOC wind-driven eddy-resolving limited-area quasi-geostrophic numerical model have been used to study the dynamics of the California Current System (CCS). with particular emphasis on the energetics. ...

Abstract: The Santa Barbara Channel (SBC) is a coastal basin about 100 km long bounded by the Southern California mainland on the north and by a chain of islands on the south. The SBC is at most 50 km wide and just over 600 m deep. ...