Abstract: A sigma coordinate ocean circulation model is employed to study flow trapped to a tall seamount in a periodic f-plane channel. In Part I, errors arising from the pressure gradient formulation in the steep topography/strong ...

Abstract: The hypothesis that variations in eddy diffusivity may account for some aspects of the observed distributions of oceanic scalars is examined by generating solutions to the diffusion equation with spatially variable and/or ...

Abstract: Statistically steady states consistent with a horizontally uniform time-averaged temperature gradient in a two-layer quasi-geostrophic model on a beta-plane are found by numerically integrating the equations for deviations ...

Abstract: The stability of currents generated in an oceanic eddy-resolving general circulation model EGCM (Holland, 1978) is investigated by solving the eigenvalue problem associated with the finite-difference quasi-geostrophic ...

Abstract: The low-frequency variability of the oceanic wind-driven circulation is investigated by use of a reduced-gravity, quasigeostrophic model with slight variations on the classic double-gyre wind forcing. Approximately 30 ...

Abstract: The vacillation of baroclinically unstable waves in a two-layer eddy-resolving oceanic circulation model is described. The vacillation cycle is distinguished kinematically by the mutual coexistence at equilibrium of short ...

Abstract: A numerical model of the wind-driven transient ocean circulation in the Middle Atlantic Bight is described. The model incorporates realistic topography and covers the continental shelf between the coast and the 200 m isobath ...

Abstract: Numerical simulations of two-dimensional turbulence show that O(??1) and O(??4) energy spectra?described by Fox and Orszag (1973a) as enstrophy-equipartitioning and strongly dissipating turbulence, respectively?occur ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional lake model driven by wind stress and heat flux fields derived from an atmospheric model is applied to Lake Kinneret, Israel. The summer wind field over the lake has a strong diurnal and large spatial ...

Abstract: A high-resolution primitive equation numerical model is used to generate a poleward flow along a meridionally oriented eastern boundary slope/shelf system by imposing an along-coast density gradient as the forcing mechanism. ...