Abstract: Experiments were performed in a rotating, differentially heated annulus, with and without bottom topography of azimuthal wavenumber 2. Both water and a viscous glycerol-water mixture were used as a working fluid. In one ...

Abstract: An accurate determination of turbulent exchanges between the ocean and the atmosphere is a prerequisite to identify and assess the mechanisms of interaction that control part of the variability in the two media over a wide ...

Abstract: Quantification of sources and sinks of carbon at global and regional scales requires not only a good description of the land sources and sinks of carbon, but also of the synoptic and mesoscale meteorology. An experiment ...