Abstract: The time-dependent response of a 1½-layer, f-plane ocean with topography to a source of buoyancy is studied analytically and numerically. The topography consists of an infinitely long escarpment. Linear theory interprets ...

Abstract: The streamfunction for a two-dimensional (line) mass sink in an unbounded rotating stratified fluid on an f-plane is derived using the linearized equations of motion. The solution is applied to the large scale circulation ...

Abstract: A one-parameter family of exact solutions describing the bifurcation of a steady two-dimensional current with uniform vorticity near a gap in a thin barrier is found. The unsteady evolution of source-driven flows toward ...

Abstract: A two-layer model of anticyclonic eddy propagation including the effects of diapycnal mixing is presented. The lower layer is assumed to be of finite volume, whereas the upper layer is infinite in horizontal extent, and ...

Abstract: This work examines the dynamics of point vortices in a two-layer fluid near large-amplitude, sharply varying topography like that which occurs in continental shelf regions. Topography takes the form of an infinitely long ...