Abstract: A local neutral plane is defined so that a water parcel that is displaced adiabatically a small distance along the plane continues to have the same density as the surrounding water. Since such a displacement does not change ...

Abstract: he nonlinear equation of state of seawater introduces a sink or source of buoyancy when water parcels of unequal salinities and temperatures are mixed. This article contains quantitative estimates of these nonlinear effects ...

Abstract: he interaction of the barotropic tide with bottom topography when the tidal frequency ? is smaller than the Coriolis frequency f is examined. The resulting waves are called bottom-trapped internal tides. The energy density ...

Abstract: he problem of finding the state of minimum potential energy through the rearrangement of water parcels with a nonlinear equation of state is discussed in the context of a combinatorial optimization problem. It is found ...

Abstract: A numerical model based on the shallow-water equations is developed to represent the flow of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) in the Brazil Basin (southwest Atlantic Ocean). The aim is twofold. First, an attempt is made to ...

Abstract: he conversion of barotropic to baroclinic tidal energy in the global abyssal ocean is calculated using three different formulations. The calculations are done both ?offline,? that is, using externally given tidal currents ...

Abstract: his article presents a new framework for studying water mass transformations in salinity?temperature space that can, with equal ease, be applied to study water mass transformation in spaces defined by any two conservative ...

Abstract: The authors present results from laboratory experiments and numerical simulations of the barotropic circulation in a basin with sloping boundaries forced by a surface stress. Focus is placed on flows with large-scale Rossby ...

Abstract: new global streamfunction is presented and denoted the thermohaline streamfunction. This is defined as the volume transport in terms of temperature and salinity (hence no spatial variables). The streamfunction is used to ...