Abstract: uring the first decade of the twenty-first century, more than 6000 Argo floats have been launched over the World Ocean, gathering temperature and salinity data from the upper 2000 m, at a 10-day or so sampling period. ...

Abstract: he time-mean Argo float displacements and the World Ocean Atlas 2009 temperature?salinity climatology are used to obtain the total, top to bottom, mass transports. Outside of an equatorial band, the total transports are ...

Abstract: he mean ocean circulation near 1000-m depth is estimated with 100-km resolution from the Argo float displacements collected before 1 January 2010. After a thorough validation, the 400 000 or so displacements found in the ...

Abstract: Quasi-Lagrangian trajectories of 26 sound fixing and ranging (SOFAR) floats have been collected near a depth of 700 m in the Central North Atlantic between 1983 and 1989, aiming at studying the influence of the Mid-Atlantic ...

Abstract: Part I of this paper has given a descriptive view of the trajectories of 26 SOFAR floats drifting near 700-m depth in the central North Atlantic during the mid-1980s, as part of the TOPOGULF experiment. Here an Eulerian ...

Abstract: A nonlinear finite-difference inverse model is used for estimating the North Atlantic general circulation between 20° and 50°N. The inverse model with grid spacing 2° latitude and 2.5° longitude is based on hydrography and ...

Abstract: AbstractThe vertically integrated potential energy of an incompressible stratified fluid formulated in density coordinates can be simply written as a weighted vertical sum of the squares of the vertical displacements of ...