Abstract: Fronts are ubiquitous in the ocean. Recent work by Dewar has considered the formation of oceanic fronts in a simple layered model. In this contribution, the position and structure of similar fronts within a coupled mixed ...

Abstract: The subtropical recirculation regions are considered as examples of nonlinear free flow??baroclinic Fofonoff gyres.? In the interior, where relative vorticity may be neglected, the quad-geostrophic assumption may be relaxed, ...

Abstract: A flux form of the Potential vorticity (PV) equation is applied to study the creation and transport of potential vorticity in an ocean gyre; generalized PV fluxes (J vectors) and the associated PV flux fines are used to ...

Abstract: A continuously stratified, steady thermocline model is formulated in which a mixed layer of variable depth and density overlies a stratified thermocline. Rather than prescribe the distribution of density and vertical ...

Abstract: The transport of mass between a mixed layer, exposed to mechanical and thermodynamic forcing, and an adiabatic thermocline is studied for gyre-scale motions. It is shown that if the mixed layer can be represented by a ...

Abstract: ubduction?the transport of fluid across the base of mixed layer?exchanges water masses and tracers between the ocean surface and interior. Eddies can affect subduction in a variety of ways. First, eddies shoal the mixed ...

Abstract: The density distribution in the abyssal Atlantic Ocean suggests that mixing associated with overflows across deep sills may account for substantial amounts of deep mixing. Estimates of the strait mixing are made from ...

Abstract: In Part I, the ?vertical? transport streamfunction was defined as resulting from isopycnic averaging at constant height in the same way that the meridional streamfunction results from averaging at constant latitude. Part ...

Abstract: Simple Eulerian averaging of velocities, density, and tracers at constant position is the most natural way of averaging. However, Eulerian averaging gives incorrect watermass distributions and properties as well as spurious ...

Abstract: The effect of cooling on the separated boundary current predicted by the model of Parsons is studied. The separating current is found to strengthen and to move southwards and eastwards. The model is also robust to limited ...