Abstract: Multiple zonal jets are observed in satellite data?based estimates of oceanic velocities, float measurements, and high-resolution numerical simulations of the ocean circulation. This study makes a step toward understanding ...

Abstract: This study analyzes anisotropic properties of the material transport by eddies and eddy-driven zonal jets in a general circulation model of the North Atlantic through the analysis of Lagrangian particle trajectories. ...

Abstract: his study explores the relationship between coherent eddies and zonally elongated striations. The investigation involves an analysis of two baroclinic quasigeostrophic models of a zonal and double-gyre flow and a set of ...

Abstract: his study describes a nonlocal mechanism for the generation of oceanic alternating jets by topographic ridges. The dynamics of these jets is examined using a baroclinic quasigeostrophic model configured with an isolated ...

Abstract: his study examines anisotropic transport properties of the eddying North Atlantic flow, using an idealized model of the double-gyre oceanic circulation and altimetry-derived velocities. The material transport by the ...

Abstract: A hierarchy of inhomogeneous, nonstationary stochastic models of material transport is formulated, and its properties are described. The transport models from the hierarchy sequence provide progressively more skillful ...

Abstract: Transport models are required for simulating the subgrid-scale transport by mesoscale eddies, which are typically not resolved in coarse-grid representations of the ocean circulation. Here, a new transport model from the ...

Abstract: The authors investigate the spontaneous occurrence of large-scale, low-frequency variability of steadily forced, two-gyre, wind-driven circulations. The model dynamics is quasigeostrophic, the density stratification is ...

Abstract: A local model is used to investigate the dynamics of the western boundary current in a midlatitude, wind-driven gyre. This current is important for the gyre as a whole, and its local instability is correlated with structural ...

Abstract: his study investigates the anisotropic properties of the eddy-induced material transport in the near-surface North Atlantic from two independent datasets, one simulated from the sea surface height altimetry and one derived ...