Abstract: Observations of upper-ocean western boundary current (WBC) transports reveal asymmetries between the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres of the Atlantic Ocean. To find out what mechanism might cause these asymmetries the ...

Abstract: New light is shed on Worthington's concept of the North Atlantic circulation, postulating the existence of two anticyclonic gyres. This concept, which seems to have been laid to rest in the last decade, has now been ...

Abstract: A Stommel-Arons model of the circulation of Lower Circumpolar Deep Water (LCDW) in the Atlantic Ocean is presented and compared with observations. The LCDW is defined as a layer of uniform thickness over a flat bottom; the ...

Abstract: Reversals of baroclinicity and associated subsurface jets have often been observed in oceanic eddies, but without adequate explanation. In this study, a two-dimensional adiabatic frontogenesis model is applied and several ...

Abstract: Results of a three-dimensional primitive equation model are presented simulating turbulent mesoscale motions in the seasonal thermocline on an f plane. The model is based on a hybrid vertical coordinate scheme and conserves ...

Abstract: Distributions of eddy kinetic energy in the North Atlantic Ocean show that enhanced mesoscale activity exists in the Cape Verde Frontal Zone (the eastern part of the Central Water Boundary). This variability and its ...

Abstract: From an oceanographic survey of the Antalya Basin in February 1997 the following horizontal circulation pattern was found: the Asia Minor Current (AMC) was detached from the Turkish coast flowing to the southwest. The ...