Abstract: A series of numerical experiments, using analytical and numerical models, leads to the conclusion that the separation of the Brazil Current from the coast can be related to the northward momentum of the Malvinas Current. ...

Abstract: The oceanic circulation near the eastern margin of the African continent is dominated by the poleward flow of the Agulhas Current. The Agulhas Current separates from the African coast near the southern tip of the continent, ...

Abstract: ong time series of sea surface height (SSH), sea surface temperature, and wind stress curl are used to determine the main modes of low-frequency variability of the Southern Ocean (SO) circulation. The dominant mode is a ...

Abstract: The term ?downwelling currents? refers to currents with a downslope mass flux in the bottom boundary layer. Examples are the Malvinas and Southland Currents in the Southern Hemisphere and the Oyashio in the Northern ...

Abstract: his study shows that simulations of bottom-trapped plumes in periodic or closed domains generate a spurious cyclonic current that arrests the natural tendency of the plume to move upstream. Furthermore, it also shows that ...

Abstract: The separation of western boundary currents from the coast and their eastward extensions into the open ocean are characterized by the presence of quasi-stationary, large-scale meanders. These meanders result when the western ...

Abstract: It is well known that numerical simulations of freshwater discharges produce plumes that spread in the direction opposite to that of the propagation of coastally trapped waves (the upstream direction). The lack of a theory ...

Abstract: This note considers the decay of a bottom-trapped freshwater plume after the causative freshwater inflow has ceased. It is shown that shortly after the low-density inflow stops, the barotropic pressure field that it created ...

Abstract: wo ocean general circulation models are used to test the ability of geostrophic velocity measurement systems to observe the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) and meridional heat transport (MHT) in the South Atlantic. ...