Abstract: The evolution of longshore currents produced by upwelling on an f-plane over shelf-like bottom topography for times long compared to a barotropic spin-up time, but short compared to a diffusion time, reveals in a linear, ...

Abstract: The effect of shelf-like bottom topography on a steady, linear, stratified, three-dimensional model of coastal upwelling is examined. It is shown that the presence of the bottom slope 1) reduces the role of the lower Ekman ...

Abstract: The relationship between coastal upwelling and coastal long-short currents is studied in a simple model of a continuously stratified fluid in a closed basin on the f-plane. It is shown that the coastal long-shore current ...

Abstract: The steady baroclinic flow in a basin containing a meridional barrier representing a midocean ridge is studied in the linear, quasigeostrophic limit of a two-layer model. Thermal damping and a simple friction provide ...

Abstract: A simplified but nonlinear model of large-scale air?sea interaction is formulated which involves the interaction between a finite-amplitude cyclone wave, the large-scale atmospheric temperature field, and sea?surface ...

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Abstract: An analytical theory is presented for long-period pulsations of a finite-amplitude baroclinic wave. It is shown that for small dissipation a limit cycle is possible whether or not the steady wave regime is stable to ...

Abstract: The transmission of westward propagating baroclinic Rossby waves incident on a gappy meridional barrier is studied in the context of the two-layer, quasigeostrophic model. The meridional barrier models the presence of very ...

Abstract: The finite-amplitude dynamics of a weakly unstable baroclinic disturbance in an atmosphere with continuous shear and static stability is investigated. The effects of ? (the planetary vorticity gradient), Ekman dissipation ...

Abstract: An a priori estimate is given of the effect of ventilation on the process of potential vorticity homogenization. Since the homogenization process depends on the presence of weak mixing, it is shown that only a small exposure ...