Abstract: This paper examines the stability properties of coastal currents having the same potential vorticity (PV) structure but different transports and widths. The PV structure is chosen so as to verify the Charney?Stern necessary ...

Abstract: A process study is conducted on the evolution of boundary currents in a two-layer quasigeostrophic model on the f plane. These currents are composed of two strips of uniform potential vorticity (PV), one in each layer, and ...

Abstract: dynamical interpretation is made of the mesoscale eddy buoyancy fluxes in the Eastern Boundary Currents off California and Peru?Chile, based on regional equilibrium simulations. The eddy fluxes are primarily shoreward and ...

Abstract: his study focuses on the description of an oceanic variant of the Charney baroclinic instability, arising from the joint presence of (i) an equatorward buoyancy gradient that extends from the surface into the ocean interior ...

Abstract: igh-resolution numerical experiments of ocean mesoscale eddy turbulence show that the wind-driven mixed layer (ML) dynamics affects mesoscale motions in the surface layers at scales lower than O(60 km). At these scales, ...

Abstract: The authors examine the turbulent properties of a baroclinically unstable oceanic flow using primitive equation (PE) simulations with high resolution (in both horizontal and vertical directions). Resulting dynamics in the ...

Abstract: pwelling off southern Senegal and Gambia takes place over a wide shelf with a large area where depths are shallower than 20 m. This results in typical upwelling patterns that are distinct (e.g., more persistent in time and ...