Abstract: A hydraulic theory is advanced to explain the large sustained meandering of the Kuroshio Current to the south of Japan. It is shown that in general a promontory induces separation of a coastal current. Once separated the ...

Abstract: n regards to the recent paper by Pedlosky and Spall (Journal of Physical Oceanography, November 2015), this comment maintains that the steady-state solutions of Rossby waves in a uniform eastward current past an island ...

Abstract: Observations of a laboratory model of a western boundary current, and its separation and subsequent meandering, are described. The current is established by pumping fluid through a rotating channel that contains a topographic ...