Abstract: The establishment and maintenance of the mean hydrographic properties of large-scale density fronts in the upper ocean is considered. The dynamics is studied by posing an initial value problem starring with a near-surface ...

Abstract: The nature of the balance of forces in the downstream direction is discussed. It is shown that the ageostrophic cross-stream flow is in adjective equilibrium in which the Coriolis force is balanced by the nonlinear inertia force.

Abstract: In Part I of this series, a framework was introduced for the study of oceanic frontal dynamics. The dynamics was studied by posing an initial value problem, starting with a near-surface discharge of buoyant water with a ...

Abstract: The structure of the Gulf Stream Current is associated with the quasi-permanent density front in the western North Atlantic. The lighter mass of warmer but saltier water of the Sargasso Sea is separated from the slope water ...

Abstract: The frontal instability of major baroclinic ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream is numerically studied here, using a three-dimensional, primitive-equation model. The model current is driven by a buoyant discharge near ...

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Abstract: An investigation is made of the two-dimensional flow of a stratified fluid over an extended obstacle, characterized by a source disturbance, for an infinite medium and for a layer of finite depth. The problems are posed ...