Abstract: The analytical results for the splitting conditions of isolated barotropic eddies and the associated final equilibrium state are extended to: 1) nonlinear baroclinic eddies; 2) a group of four nonlinear closely packed ...

Abstract: The nonlinear leakage of Kuroshio water (via the Tsushima Strait) into the Sea of Japan is examined using a ?reduced gravity? analytical model. The flow in our conceptual model results from the zonal sea level difference ...

Abstract: The dynamics of outflows from sea straits and wide estuaries are examined through a simplified frictionless model whose primary motions are not constrained to be quasi-geostrophic. The potential vorticity equation is solved ...

Abstract: A frictionless nonlinear model with allowance for motions which are far from a state of geostrophic balance is considered in order to describe the dynamics of outflows consisting of two layers of fluids. The governing ...

Abstract: In this paper an analytical method is proposed for calculating the nonlinear ?-induced translation of isolated baroclinic eddies. The study focuses on frictionless anticyclonic eddies with a uniform anomalous density and ...

Abstract: The author considers two oceanic basins separated by a meridional wall. The wall contains a gap that is initially blocked by a gate; westward winds are allowed to blow over the two-layered oceans creating western boundary ...

Abstract: In this paper a mechanism is proposed which could be responsible for the formation of sharp horizontal density gradients such as those observed in shallow seas, from fluid which initially has weak horizontal density ...

Abstract: Organized depth discontinuities involving a balance between steepening and dissipation are usually referred to as shock waves. An analytical ?educed gravity? model is used to examine a special kind of shock wave. The wave ...

Abstract: In this brief note it is demonstrated that the question of what is the mechanism(s) responsible for the southern migration of the Gulf Stream front during wanter?is still open.

Abstract: The behavior of outflows resulting from channels cutting through broad continents and emptying into wedgelike oceans, or channels cutting in wedgelike continents and emptying into broad oceans, is examined analytically. ...