Abstract: The response of the ocean at low latitude to idealized westerly wind bursts can be described as a wave wake composed of equatorial gravity and Rossby-gravity modes. The excited waves are those with phase speeds that match ...

Abstract: Vertical profiles of current and density made within 5° latitude of the equator along longitudes 168 and 179°E (the vicinity of the Gilbert Islands) reveal multiple deep current reversals which are confined to the equator. ...

Abstract: Two 3.5 month time series records of upper-ocean current and density profiles collected in opposite seasons as part of the LOTUS (Long-Term Upper-Ocean Study) project at 34°N, 70°W indicate substantial variation in the ...

Abstract: A two-year array of sea-level and deep current and temperature measurements made in the Gilbert Group, Republic of Kiribati, is used to verify the hypothesis that equatorial gravity waves in baroclinic modes are responsible ...

Abstract: A linear internal wave model for reflection off a sloping bottom applied to a field of horizontally isotropic waves typical of the deep ocean leads to a strongly perturbed frequency-vertical wavenumber energy spectrum. The ...

Abstract: Two-year time series of current and temperature collected in the deep equatorial central Pacific 0cean as part of the Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics (PEQUOD) project indicate that motions with vertical scales comparable ...

Abstract: The upper-ocean to forcing by pressure gradients and wind stress is examined using observations from the Frontal Air?Sea Interaction Experiment. A moored way acquired time series of winds. upper-ocean currents, temperatures, ...

Abstract: n the California Current System, subthermocline, lenslike anticyclonic eddies generated within the California Undercurrent (CU) are one mechanism for lateral transport of the warm, saline waters of the CU. Garfield et al. ...

Abstract: eep convection?the process by which surface waters are mixed down to 1000 m or deeper?forms the primary downwelling of the meridional overturning circulation in the Northern Hemisphere. High-resolution hydrographic ...

Abstract: Intense, buoyant anticyclonic eddies spawned from the west Greenland boundary current were observed with high-resolution autonomous Seaglider hydrography and satellite altimetry as they entered the Labrador Sea interior. ...