Abstract: The authors present a new model of the tropical surface circulation, forced by changes in sensible heat and evaporative flux anomalies that are associated with prescribed sea surface temperature anomalies. The model is ...

Abstract: Most available wind products show a mean wind stress curl across the Pacific at 2°N that is close to zero, so a Sverdrup model predicts the western boundary current at the Asian coast to be nearly zero at this latitude. ...

Abstract: More than half of the predicted rise in future sea level caused by the enhanced greenhouse effect is currently thought to be due to the thermal expansion of the oceans. Here methods for quantifying this thermal expansion ...