Abstract: Over a deep barotropic ocean an isolated pressure cell, producing a wind stress curl, generates topographic Rossby waves which are incident on a continental shelf with a simple exponentially varying slope. It is shown that ...

Abstract: The stability of Niiler's model of a deepening mixed layer was investigated assuming the deepening rate was negligible. Two basically different instability mechanisms appeared. One is a mixture of a Kelvin-Helmholtz type ...

Abstract: In Part I we examined the stability of a model of the mixed layer, neglecting the deepening rate. Here we examine the effects of the deepening but neglect the oscillations in the steady state. We find that the two types ...

Abstract: We know that long-period (>1 day) and long-wavelength (>100 km) topographical Rossby waves can be generated by a wind acting directly on a continental shelf (Adams and Buchwald, 1969). Here we examine the characteristics ...

Abstract: An analytic solution is presented for the steady-state depth-averaged western boundary current flowing over the continental slope by combining three highly idealized models: the Stommel model, the Munk model, and the ...