Abstract: A method is designed to calculate normal modes of natural basins. The purpose is to determine the period and configuration of free oscillations in a way that provides for the full two-dimensionality of the problem, and ...

Abstract: Normal modes are calculated for a homogeneous ocean occupying a connected domain consisting of the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Coastal configuration and bathymetry are resolved on a grid of 675 ...

Abstract: The linearized primitive equations for a barotropic world ocean are discretized by means of first-order, piecewise-linear finite elements. Surface elevation and Stokes/Helmholtz velocity potentials are adopted as dependent ...

Abstract: The first numerical weather prediction was made on the ENIAC computer in 1950. This lecture gives some of the historical background of that event and a partially narrative account of it.

Abstract: The transfer of energy between mean flow and disturbance for a barotropic non-divergent fluid is investigated by solution of the vorticity equation to obtain initial tendencies corresponding to assigned flow-patterns. The ...

Abstract: A finite-element model recently designed for calculation of oceanic normal modes is amended here with a prescription for the proper treatment of multiple connectivity, the main effects of which are likely to be located in ...

Abstract: The nonlinear aspects of the vorticity equation for two-dimensional planetary circulations of the earth's atmosphere may be studied by expansion of the solution in spherical surface harmonics. Some of the main mathematical ...

Abstract: If one regards a discrete function as a vector, the ?best? approximation to the product of two discrete functions (defined for the same set of values of the argument) is not necessarily the ordinary scalar product. The ...

Abstract: Diurnal and semidiurnal tides of second and third degree are synthesized from 60 normal modes with period in the range 8 to 96 h. Diurnal tides, especially those of second degree, can be represented by remarkably few modes. ...

Abstract: A summary of numerical computations is presented, in a form designed to aid in operational prediction of surges in the Southern Basin of Lake Michigan. The computations are based upon a dynamical model in which the surge ...