Abstract: The role of topography in the mean structure of low-level winds is investigated. Because the gravitational force vector has a component locally parallel to the sloping terrain, the low-level temperature anomaly, created ...

Abstract: Doppler wind data obtained over the Indian Ocean during the 1964 Indian Ocean Expedition are analyzed in terms of power spectrum estimates. Peculiarities in the computed distribution of the mean horizontal kinetic energy ...

Abstract: A vertically integrated model that incorporates horizontal temperature variations is used to study the circulation of the Yellow Sea in a wintertime period for which velocity and temperature measurements are available at ...

Abstract: An assimilation of routine sea surface temperature observations is conducted to estimate the sea surface heat flux in the Yellow Sea during the winter of 1986. Ten-day mean SST compilations, published by the Japan ...

Abstract: Steady coastal upwelling driven by wind-stress and surface apparent temperature anomalies in a continuously stratified ocean of infinite depth is examined within the framework of a set of linearized hydrodynamic and ...

Abstract: Because continental margins are inclined, the boundary layer over them is tied to bottom density as well as to the barotropic pressure gradient. Through the no-flux condition at the sea floor, the bottom boundary layer, ...

Abstract: The steady-state circulation on a continental shelf under the combined influence of a wind stress, a surfacedensity distribution, and a longshore current over the shelf break is investigated in a linear, ?-plane modelthat ...

Abstract: Hindeasts of bottom currents on the southern Washington continental shelf are made on the basis of a long-wave approximation to the vorticity equation for a barotropic flow. Resistance of the shelf bottom to the flow is ...

Abstract: Free, stable, coastal-trapped waves propagating in a continental shelf regime typical of coastal upwelling areas are studied using a two-layer analytical model. Two cases of interfacial geometry and mean current simulate ...

Abstract: The coastally trapped long-wave theory is adapted to a double shelf bottom topography in the development of a barotropic long-wave model for calculating wintertime wind-driven currents and sea level fluctuations in the ...