Abstract: A new mechanism is proposed to account for the southward motion of salt lenses in the Canary Basin. It relies on the active mixing that is observed at the periphery of such eddies between the warm salty Mediterranean waters ...

Abstract: Although the instability of the thermohaline circulation has been widely observed in numerical ocean models, theoretical advances have been hindered by the nonlinearity of heat and salt transports, a circulation governed ...

Abstract: he interaction of internal waves with geostrophic flows is found to be strongly dependent upon the background stratification. Under the traditional approximation of neglecting the horizontal component of the earth?s rotation ...

Abstract: he time-mean Argo float displacements and the World Ocean Atlas 2009 temperature?salinity climatology are used to obtain the total, top to bottom, mass transports. Outside of an equatorial band, the total transports are ...

Abstract: he mean ocean circulation near 1000-m depth is estimated with 100-km resolution from the Argo float displacements collected before 1 January 2010. After a thorough validation, the 400 000 or so displacements found in the ...

Abstract: he turbulent diapycnal mixing in the ocean is currently obtained from microstructure and finestructure measurements, dye experiments, and inverse models. This study presents a new method that infers the diapycnal mixing ...

Abstract: Quasi-Lagrangian trajectories of 26 sound fixing and ranging (SOFAR) floats have been collected near a depth of 700 m in the Central North Atlantic between 1983 and 1989, aiming at studying the influence of the Mid-Atlantic ...

Abstract: Part I of this paper has given a descriptive view of the trajectories of 26 SOFAR floats drifting near 700-m depth in the central North Atlantic during the mid-1980s, as part of the TOPOGULF experiment. Here an Eulerian ...

Abstract: A four-box model of the ocean?atmosphere is constructed that exhibits self-sustained oscillations in the regime of decadal to interdecadal periods found in oceanic general circulation models under certain boundary conditions. ...

Abstract: Numerical simulations of coarse-resolution, idealized ocean basins under constant surface heat flux are analyzed to show that the interdecadal oscillations that emerge naturally in such configurations are driven by baroclinic ...