Abstract: The classical question of what happens; when a warm western boundary current, such as the North Brazil Current (NBC), retroflects is addressed analytically using a reduced-gravity nonlinear model. The traditional view is ...

Abstract: It has been recently shown that when an inviscid outflow empties into the ocean, a steady alongshore current (in the Kelvin wave sense) cannot be established. This is due to the impossibility of balancing the alongshore ...

Abstract: A new theory for the generation of the Tsugaru and Alboran gyres is proposed. The essence of the theory can be described as follows. Using the nonlinear reduced-gravity (shallow water) equations, it has been recently shown ...

Abstract: This study deals with the separation of western boundary currents within a reduced-gravity framework, and it analyzes the formation of eddies in the separation region and the conditions of their shedding into the open ...

Abstract: The outflow from the Indonesian seas empties approximately 5?7 Sv of surface warm (and low salinity) Indonesian Throughflow water into the southern Indian Ocean (at roughly 12°S). Using a nonlinear 1½-layer model with a ...

Abstract: The outflow from the Indonesian seas empties approximately 5?7 Sv of surface warm (and low salinity) Indonesian Throughflow water into the southern Indian Ocean (at roughly 12°S). Using a nonlinear 1½-layer model with a ...

Abstract: Using a nonlinear ?reduced gravity? model it is shown analytically that a large buoyant midlatitude outflow situated along the northern boundary of a ?-plane ocean produces an unusually broad westward flow. The steady ...

Abstract: The recently proposed analytical theory of Nof and Pichevin describing the intimate relationship between retroflecting currents and the production of rings is examined numerically and applied to the Agulhas Current. Using ...

Abstract: sing integration constraints and scale analysis, van Leeuwen and De Ruijter focused on the steady aspect of the downstream flow in the momentum imbalance articles of Nof and Pichevin appearing in the 1990s and later on. ...