Abstract: A new one-dimensional bulk model of the mixed layer of the upper ocean is presented. An entrainment hypothesis dependent upon the relative distribution of turbulent energy between horizontal and vertical components is ...

Abstract: Three-dimensional features and instabilities of dense overflows from marginal seas onto continental slopes are investigated using a three-dimensional, primitive equation numerical ocean model. The numerical simulations ...

Abstract: Based on the experience of numerical weather prediction during the 1950s and 1960s as a model, a case is presented for the development of an ocean prediction capability during the 1980s. Examples selected from recent ...

Abstract: An extended period of reduced surface heat and momentum fluxes due to the absence of atmospheric storms may result in upper-ocean temperature anomalies that persist for months. The predominance of either anomalously high ...

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Abstract: A usually neglected Coriolis term in the turbulent kinetic energy budget of the ocean surface mixed layer is examined for the special case of a steady-state mixed layer depth with no entrainment. In this term, the Reynolds ...

Abstract: The normal equilibrium state of the tropical Pacific mixed layer is explained by the steady state solution for the maximum vertical penetration of oceanic turbulence generated by local atmospheric forcing. The previously ...

Abstract: Measurements of deep convection from fully Lagrangian floats deployed in the Labrador Sea during February and March 1997 are compared with results from model drifters embedded in a large eddy simulation (LES) of the rapidly ...