Abstract: Bottom water circulation in a bowl-shaped, or concave, abyssal basin driven by upwelling is investigated using a simple numerical model. In a basin wholly contained in one hemisphere, the concave bottom geometry introduces ...

Abstract: A linear, two-layer baroclinic model of deep circulation driven by deep water production is formulated. In distinction to the Stommel-Arons model where a uniform middepth upwelling is prescribed, the present model determines ...

Abstract: Spinup of the circulation driven by an inflow into an abyssal basin containing a simple large-scale topographic feature is studied, using an inverted one-and-a-half-layer shallow-water model. Two types of topography, one ...

Abstract: Through the time integration of a simple numerical model, the transfomation of a tropical easterly wave into a tropical depression was investigated. The initial condition selected for the model is a slowly decaying adiabatic ...

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Abstract: Although observations indicate that localization of deep convection results from oceanic preconditioning and only to a lesser extent from the gradients in the atmospheric forcing, most laboratory and numerical simulations ...

Abstract: Large buoyancy loss driving deep convection is often associated with a large wind stress that is typically omitted in simulations of convection. Here it is shown that this omission is not justified when overturning occurs ...

Abstract: Large buoyancy loss driving deep convection is often associated with a large wind stress that is typically omitted in simulations of convection. Here it is shown that this omission is not justified when overturning occurs ...

Abstract: Intermediate, or deep, convection in a baroclinic flow occurs along slanted paths parallel to the alongflow absolute momentum surfaces. These surfaces are principally tilted due to the vertical shear in velocity but can ...

Abstract: The classic Stommel?Arons problem is revisited in the context of a basin with a general bottom topography containing an equator. Topography is taken to be smoothly varying and, as such, there are no vertical side walls in ...