Abstract: A theory for the exchange between a rotating, buoyancy-forced marginal sea and an ocean is developed and tested numerically. Cooling over the marginal sea leads to sinking and sets up a two-layer exchange flow, with a warm ...

Abstract: he west-to-east crossover of boundary currents has been seen in mean circulation schemes from several past models of the Red Sea. This study investigates the mechanisms that produce and control the crossover in an idealized, ...

Abstract: A linear theory for the treatment of complex ridges and archipelagos as porous media is presented. The theory assumes a barotropic, wind-driven ocean with uniform depth. A porous ridge is formed by shrinking the meridional ...

Abstract: Interactions between an unstable jet and eddy are explored using a jet with piecewise constant potential vorticity. A linear theory is developed for the case where the jet is nearly zonal and the eddy is far away in the ...

Abstract: Chaotic advection is suggested as a possible mechanism for fluid exchange and mixing among a western boundary current and subbasin recirculation gyres. Applications include the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current ...

Abstract: The continuous dynamical modes of the exchange flow in the Bab al Mandab are computed in an attempt to assess the hydraulic character of the flow at the sill. First, an extended version of the Taylor?Goldstein equation for ...

Abstract: One of the largest and most persistent features in the Alboran Sea is the Western Alboran Gyre (WAG), an anticyclonic recirculation bounded by the Atlantic Jet (AJ) to the north and the Moroccan coast to the south. Eulerian ...

Abstract: The Lagrangian characteristics of the surface flow field arising when an idealized, anticyclonic, mesoscale, isolated deep-ocean eddy collides with continental slope and shelf topography are explored. In addition to fluid ...

Abstract: Observations of stratification and currents between June 2007 and March 2009 reveal a strong overflow between 400- and 570-m depth from the Panay Strait into the Sulu Sea. The overflow water is derived from approximately ...

Abstract: AbstractThe main source feeding the abyssal circulation of the North Pacific is the deep, northward flow of 5?6 Sverdrups (Sv; 1 Sv ≡ 106 m3 s?1) through the Samoan Passage. A recent field campaign has shown that this flow ...