Abstract: In the two decades following 1975, the Kuroshio path south of Japan was observed to oscillate interannually between a straight path state and a meandering state. This bimodal condition is in sharp contrast to the decade ...

Abstract: Baroclinic Rossby wave motions in the off-equatorial oceans are investigated with emphasis on how eddy dissipation can influence the propagation of the height anomalies when both the forced wave response to wind in the ...

Abstract: Since November 1988, repeated shipboard ADCP transects have been made across the North Hawaiian Ridge Current (NHRC) north of Oahu. Prominent aspects of the NHRC transport time series include 1) a shift in late 1991 from ...