Abstract: ics of the rotating shallow-water (RSW) system include geostrophic f low and inertial oscillation. These classes of motion are ubiquitous in the ocean and atmosphere. They are often surprising to people at first because ...

Abstract: he role of the ocean in Earth?s climate is fundamentally influenced by the locally dominant stratifying property (heat or salt), which in turn can be used to categorize the ocean into three classes: alpha, beta, and ...

Abstract: Deep wintertime convection in the Labrador Basin produces Labrador Sea Water (LSW), which spreads throughout the North Atlantic. The LSW is not formed with constant characteristics but varies on decadal timescale. These ...

Abstract: A synoptic distribution of Labrador Sea Water (LSW) in the eastern North Atlantic is determined from a regularly sampled, but sparse (3° resolution), survey covering 39° to 54°N, 11° to 34°W during spring 1991. The core ...

Abstract: The authors address the question: What are the oceanic mechanisms that control North Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies? The approach is to examine the sensitivity dynamics of a non-eddy-resolving North ...

Abstract: The idealized age tracer is commonly used to diagnose transport in ocean models and to help interpret ocean measurements. In most studies only the steady-state distribution, the result of many centuries of model integration, ...

Abstract: A general theory to describe and understand advective and diffusive ocean transport is reported. It allows any passive tracer field with an atmospheric source to be constructed by superposing sea surface contributions with ...

Abstract: A hierarchy of hydrodynamical instabilities controlling the transfer of buoyancy through the oceanic mixed layer is reviewed. If a resting ocean of horizontally uniform stratification is subject to spatially uniform buoyancy ...