Abstract: It is well established that the mean transport through Bering Strait is balanced by a sea level difference between the North Pacific and the Arctic Ocean, but no mechanism has been proposed to explain this sea level ...

Abstract: A simple mechanism for the generation of flow in the eastern region of the oceans is presented. It is shown that even a small amount of upwelling-favorable wind stress parallel to the boundary makes the subducted geostrophic ...

Abstract: The role of the relative geometry of mechanical forcing (wind stress) and buoyancy forcing (prescribed surface temperature) in the maintenance of the main thermocline is explored. In particular, the role of the wind stress ...

Abstract: Welander's flip?flop model exhibits oscillations when forced by stochastic white noise (with zero mean) even in the region of parameters where the deterministic system has a globally stable fixed point. Perturbations away ...

Abstract: An inertial gyre with characteristics very similar to the recirculation observed in eddy-resolving general circulation models is obtained with a simple, analytically tractable, two-layer model. The recirculating gyre is ...

Abstract: A model that isolates the interaction between midlatitude ocean gyres and the wind stress due to atmospheric baroclinic eddies is formulated. The ocean and atmosphere are coupled through their respective heat balances and ...

Abstract: In an earlier paper it was shown that the presence of bottom topography can substantially alter the Sverdrup prediction for the large-scale wind driven flow. In their model the abyssal water is set in motion by the eddy ...

Abstract: The axisymmetric model of the Hadley circulation can be systematically reduced in the limit of small Rossby number to a simpler one-dimensional system. The reduced system governs the nonlinear evolution of the surface ...

Abstract: A parameterization for eddy buoyancy fluxes for use in coarse-grid models is developed and tested against eddy-resolving simulations. The development is based on the assumption that the eddies are adiabatic (except near ...