Abstract: Equatorial deep jets are an unsolved mystery of the equatorial oceans. These alternating zonal currents appear steady over time spans of years, but no postulated energy source has proven plausible, and elevated turbulent ...

Abstract: What drives the equatorial deep jets is a puzzle because of their isolation from surface forcing by the intervening main pycnocline and the Equatorial Undercurrent, and from lateral boundaries by distances of tens of ...

Abstract: The equatorial deep jets are often modeled as equatorially trapped long waves, either Kelvin or Rossby. Rossby waves perturb potential vorticity but Kelvin waves do not; therefore the potential vorticity structure of a ...