Abstract: We study the quasigeostrophic merging dynamics of axisymmetric baroclinic vortices to understand how baroclinicity affects merging rates and the development of the nonlinear cascade of enstrophy. The initial vortices are ...

Abstract: The Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) is an important water mass for the overall hydrology of the Mediterranean Sea and there are open questions connected with the possible long-term variability of its physical characteristics. ...

Abstract: We present the study of a series of very energetic events, which occur in the 360 days of the Polymode Synoptic Dynamics Experiment dataset. The method consists of the assimilation of data by a quasi-geostrophic open ...

Abstract: xamination of the energy budget for semienclosed seas with two-layer exchange flow at the strait shows that the energy flux at the open portion of the boundary (the strait) is proportional to the surface buoyancy flux ...

Abstract: Hydrographic measurements in the southeastern Levantine basin are analyzed, and the climatological water masses of the region and their seasonal variations are identified. We observe the formation of the salty and warm ...

Abstract: simulation and two reanalyses from 1985 to 2007 have been produced for the Mediterranean Sea using different assimilation schemes: a reduced-order optimal interpolation [System for Ocean Forecast and Analysis (SOFA)] and ...

Abstract: This paper presents a scenario for understanding the unexpectedly large changes of deep waters and thermohaline circulation in the Eastern Mediterranean during the past decade. It is demonstrated as a possible deep-water ...

Abstract: We present here a regional, eddy resolving, numerical study of the dynamics of Gulf Stream Meander and Ring (GSMR) interaction processes. We initialize the Harvard quasi-geostrophic open-boundary model with realistic meander ...

Abstract: AbstractThe time-mean zonal and meridional overturning circulations of the entire Mediterranean Sea are studied in both the Eulerian and residual frameworks. The overturning is characterized by cells in the vertical and ...