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 ...