Abstract: his article presents a solution for the linear response of a 2½-layer ventilated thermocline to large-scale periodic wind forcing, with a fixed outcrop latitude. At the eastern boundary, a Rossby wave whose vertical structure ...

Abstract: Weakly nonlinear longwaves in a horizontally sheared current flowing along a longitudinal boundary in a two-layer ocean are investigated by using a quasi-geostrophic ?-plane model. Under the assumptions that the depth ratio ...

Abstract: The mixed layer thickness generally increases in the northward direction, but its change seems to occur rather sharply in a narrow transition zone, referred to as a mixed layer front here. The author investigates the effects ...

Abstract: his paper investigates the formation of eastward jets extended from western boundary currents, using a simple two-layer quasigeostrophic (QG) model forced by a wind stress curl consistent with the formation of a subtropical ...

Abstract: The nonlinear evolution of linearly unstable barotropic boundary currents, consisting of three piecewise uniform vorticity regions, was investigated using the contour dynamics method. A physical interpretation of the ...

Abstract: Numerical experiments with idealized OGCM are carried out to investigate the oceanic eastern boundary problems. The experimental results indicate that the eastward flow due to the north?south gradient of the surface density ...

Abstract: The relation between lens translation speed and potential thickness anomaly in the second layer is investigated in a 2½-layer ?-plane primitive model in the case of southward movement of lens-shaped eddies. The trapped ...

Abstract: In the North Pacific, there is a shallow eastward current called the subtropical countercurrent, which flows across the central subtropical gyre. The present article studies the generation mechanism of the subtropical ...

Abstract: Recent GCM experiments have suggested the existence of a zonal wavenumber one convective mode in the aqua-planet atmosphere. This paper reports that a planetary-scale mode can be generated in a very simple reduced gravity ...