Abstract: Stommel?s two-box model of thermohaline circulation is modified to include the possibility of convection. When reduced to a two-degrees-of-freedom dynamical system, the model exhibits the well-known multiple (thermal and ...

Abstract: The effect of a baroclinic mean flow on long oceanic Rossby waves is studied using a combination of analytical and numerical solutions of the eigenvalue problem. The effect is summarized by the value of the nondimensional ...

Abstract: he evolution and dispersion of intermediate water masses in the ocean interior is studied. To this purpose an empirical statistical model of Lagrangian tracers at a constant depth level is developed. The model follows the ...

Abstract: The question of the generation of millennial oscillations by internal ocean dynamics is studied through deliberate use of the simplest geometry and surface forcing, namely a hemispheric ocean with time-independent mixed ...

Abstract: The Azores front is associated with an eastward flowing subtropical jet, which coincides with the northern edge of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre and forms a southern branch of the Gulf Stream. An intensive study of ...