Abstract: The reasons for the large-amplitude tidal motion observed in oceanic submarine canyons have been explored with a laboratory experiment. A barotropic tide was forced in a stratified tank, containing continental shelf-slope ...

Abstract: Topographically induced flows around Antarctica in a rotating tank experiment with both homogeneous and stratified fluid are analyzed and compared with the mean tropospheric circulation. A circular tank of fluid was brought ...

Abstract: An interactive atmosphere?ocean instability mechanism that reproduces some salient properties of the observed Antarctic Circumpolar Wave and also its manifestation in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research ...

Abstract: This paper describes some laboratory experiments with two-dimensional stratified flow over isolated topography, in which a novel configuration simulating a radiating upper boundary condition is employed. Several experimental ...

Abstract: n regards to the recent paper by Pedlosky and Spall (Journal of Physical Oceanography, November 2015), this comment maintains that the steady-state solutions of Rossby waves in a uniform eastward current past an island ...

Abstract: Observations of a laboratory model of a western boundary current, and its separation and subsequent meandering, are described. The current is established by pumping fluid through a rotating channel that contains a topographic ...

Abstract: Laboratory modeling provides a reasonably quick and relatively inexpensive method for investigating stratified air Row around mesoscale topography. Quantitative results for stratified flow over complex terrain may be ...

Abstract: The formation of eddies by dense overflows in stratified water is examined by laboratory experiments. The dense fluid initially flows down the slope but turns (under the influence of rotation) to flow along the slope. The ...

Abstract: It is shown that a number of important characteristics of the global atmospheric circulation and climate changed in a near-monotonic fashion over the decade, or less, centered on the late 1960s. These changes were largest ...

Abstract: Variability in the southern atmospheric circulation at mid- to high latitudes with a dominant quasi-stationary wavenumber-3 pattern has been reported in many observational studies. The variability is barotropic in nature ...