Abstract: In Stommel?s simple two-box model, which has provided an insight on the thermohaline circulation and climate instability mechanisms, a linear mass transport was used. However, a scaling law based on geostrophy and ...

Abstract: Thermally driven ocean circulations in idealized basins are calculated with two well-known model codes, one based on depth-level coordinates and the other based on isopycnal coordinates. In addition, the two models have ...

Abstract: Two different types of numerical ocean circulation models are used in a classical idealized problem, the thermally induced circulation in an ocean basin bounded by two meridians to the east and west and by the equator and ...

Abstract: Convection experiments were carried out in a rectangular tank as a model of oceanic meridional overturning circulation. The objective was finding a relation between the meridional heat flux and thermal forcing. To make the ...

Abstract: he Weddell Polynya of the mid-1970s is simulated in an energy balance model (EBM) sea ice?ocean coupled general circulation model (GCM) with an abrupt 20% increase in the intensity of Southern Hemisphere (SH) westerlies. ...

Abstract: AbstractAn oscillation in intensity of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds is a major characteristic of the southern annular mode. Its impact upon the sea ice?ocean interactions in the Weddell and Ross Seas is investigated ...