Abstract: The dynamics of the meridional overturning of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) are best described in terms of a residual circulation that sums the transport of the wind-driven Ekman layer to the transport associated ...

Abstract: High resolution numerical experiments of a circumpolar current are diagnosed to study how lateral and vertical transfer of buoyancy by geostrophic eddies balances advection by a meridional circulation driven by surface ...

Abstract: A simple theory is presented for the buoyancy anomaly and depth of penetration of a warm lens created by a surface buoyancy flux and Ekman pumping in an initially homogeneous, rotating fluid. It is assumed that the overturning ...