Abstract: ery strong El Niño events occur sporadically every 10?20 yr. The origin of this bursting behavior still remains elusive. Using a simplified three-dimensional dynamical model of the tropical Pacific climate system, which ...

Abstract: The method of lobe analysis is used and extended to analyze a time-dependent, boundary-trapped recirculation. The recirculation gyre occurs in a numerical model of wind-driven flow around an island, but the underlying ...