Abstract: In understanding how errors decay in twin experiments, previous studies have shown that it can be due to bottom friction or geostrophic adjustment. However, there are quantities, such as passive tracers, that may not be ...

Abstract: ubduction?the transport of fluid across the base of mixed layer?exchanges water masses and tracers between the ocean surface and interior. Eddies can affect subduction in a variety of ways. First, eddies shoal the mixed ...

Abstract: In Part I, the ?vertical? transport streamfunction was defined as resulting from isopycnic averaging at constant height in the same way that the meridional streamfunction results from averaging at constant latitude. Part ...

Abstract: Simple Eulerian averaging of velocities, density, and tracers at constant position is the most natural way of averaging. However, Eulerian averaging gives incorrect watermass distributions and properties as well as spurious ...

Abstract: Recent idealized studies have shown that both explicit horizontal diffusion and the implicit diffusion associated with the advection scheme in high-resolution z-coordinate models may drive unrealistically high rates of ...

Abstract: The dynamical control of the eddy-induced transport is investigated in a series of idealized eddy-resolving experiments. When there is an active eddy field, the eddy-induced transport is found to correlate with isopycnic ...

Abstract: This study uses tracer experiments in a global eddy-resolving ocean model to examine two diagnostic methods for inferring effective eddy isopycnic diffusivity from point release tracers. The first method is based on the ...

Abstract: There are two distinct mechanisms by which eddies provide systematic transport of tracer on isopycnals: the advective transport, associated with the slumping of isopycnals, and the diffusive transport, associated with ...

Abstract: his study examines the subduction of the Subantarctic Mode Water in the Indian Ocean in an ocean?atmosphere coupled model in which the ocean component is eddy permitting. The purpose is to assess how sensitive the simulated ...