Abstract: The propagation of Rossby waves on a midlatitude ? plane is investigated in the presence of density diffusion with the aid of linear hydrostatic theory. The search for wave solutions in a vertically bounded medium subject ...

Abstract: his study examines the observability of a stratified ocean in a square flat basin on a midlatitude beta plane. Here, ?observability? means the ability to establish, in a finite interval of time, the time-dependent ocean ...

Abstract: The Lagrangian motion in the eddy field produced from an unstable retrograde jet along the shelf break is studied from idealized numerical experiments with a primitive equation model. The jet is initially in thermal wind ...

Abstract: A numerical model based on the shallow-water equations is developed to represent the flow of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) in the Brazil Basin (southwest Atlantic Ocean). The aim is twofold. First, an attempt is made to ...

Abstract: An inverse method is used to evaluate the information contained in sediment data for the Atlantic basin during the Last Glacial Maximum (defined here as the time interval 18?21 kyr before present). The data being considered ...

Abstract: The ability of paleoceanographic tracers to constrain rates of transport is examined using an inverse method to combine idealized observations with a geostrophic model. Considered are the spatial distribution, accuracy, ...

Abstract: A 1-Myr-long time-dependent solution of a zonally averaged ocean?atmosphere model subject to Milankovitch forcing is examined to gain insight into long-term changes in the planetary-scale meridional moisture flux in the ...

Abstract: hree sediment records of sea surface temperature (SST) are analyzed that originate from distant locations in the North Atlantic, have centennial-to-multicentennial resolution, are based on the same reconstruction method ...