Abstract: Numerical simulations are used to study on-shelf transport of dense water by oscillatory barotropic currents incident upon an isolated coastal canyon. The physical system is a laboratory-scale annulus in which forcing is ...

Abstract: The initial/boundary value problem for the barotropic version of a quasi-geostrophic open ocean model which requires normal flow everywhere on the boundary and vorticity on the inflow is studied. Parameter dependencies and ...

Abstract: Direct simulations of turbulent quasi-geostrophic flow on a ?plane have been performed with an emphasis on three-dimensional resolution [128 ? 128] in the horizontal and up to 6 vertical modes). The statistically equilibrated ...

Abstract: A sequence of numerical simulations is described of wind-driven flow over irregular continental shelf topography. The model is barotropic, nonlinear, and forced by a periodic, spatially uniform alongshelf wind stress. The ...