Abstract: Recently collected hydrographic data show that each of the four water mass zones previously identified in Drake Passage is characterized by a distinctly different vertical profile of Brunt-Väisälä frequency. Stratification ...

Abstract: A basin-scale fine-resolution primitive equation reduced-gravity model forced by the climatological monthly wind of Hellerman and Rosenstein is used to study seasonal variability of the wind-driven upper-layer circulation ...

Abstract: The feasibility of a forecasting scheme for predicting the onset of a major El Ni-o in the ocean is demonstrated using the linear numerical model of Busalacchi and O'Brien and the interannual components of the shipboard ...

Abstract: A dynamical forecast model which has been applied to the onset of the 1982/83 El Niño is applied to the decay of this event. The timing of the decay is well predicted, illustrating the flexibility of the dynamical forecast ...

Abstract: A five-month field study of the circulation in the Torres Strait was carried out. Baroclinic effects were negligible. The Arafura Sea and the Coral Sea forced a different tide on either side of Torres Strait, resulting in ...

Abstract: The redistribution of observed upper-ocean heat content in the western tropical North Pacific for the four-year period 1979?82 was shown by Pazan et al. to provide a qualitative hindcast capability for the 1982?83 ENSO ...

Abstract: Tropical cyclogenesis critically depends on the presence of warm water at the sea surface. For the North Atlantic basin as a whole, the tropical storm season starts in May, peaks in September, and then declines, generally ...