Abstract: Long, low waves preceding the arrival of the visible swell from a storm have been recorded off Pendeen, England, and Woods Hole, Massachusetts, by means of new instruments for the measurement and analysis of ocean waves. ...

Abstract: Phillips has shown that an undulating motion of a layered medium relative to a measuring instrument will result in a σ?2 spectrum (frequency or wavenumber) over a bandwidth determined by the thickness of the layers and of ...

Abstract: The horizontal angular deflection of a ray path through a circular eddy is roughly 2v, where v is the fractional variation in sound speed at the eddy center; v may reach 0.03 for intense Gulf Stream rings but is typically ...

Abstract: Spectra of the vertical displacement (potential energy) have been observed to be only slightly enhanced at the buoyancy frequency ? = N, whereas spectra of horizontal velocity u, v (kinetic energy) are greatly enhanced at ...

Abstract: Seven times in a year's continuous observations, marked oscillations with periods from 5 to 15 minutes were simultaneously recorded on a barograph and a damped anemometer located at La Jolla, California. The oscillations ...

Abstract: An elliptical excursion (mean diameter 20 feet), described annually by the pole of instantaneous rotation over the earth's surface, has been deduced from precise astronomic observations of latitude. According to Jeffreys ...

Abstract: Streamlines of oceanic mass transport are derived from solutions to a vertically integrated vorticity equation which relates planetary vorticity, lateral stress curl, and the curl of the stress exerted by the winds on the ...

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Abstract: The important role of tides in the mixing of the pelagic oceans has been established by recent experiments and analyses. The tide potential is modulated by long-period orbital modulations. Previously, Loder and Garrett ...

Abstract: Surface expressions of internal tides constitute a significant component of the total recorded tide. The internal component is strongly modulated by the time-variable density structure, and the resulting perturbation of ...