Abstract: The ability of long-wave low-frequency basin modes to be resonantly excited depends on the efficiency with which energy fluxed onto the western boundary can be transmitted back to the eastern boundary. This efficiency is ...

Abstract: The ability of long-wave low-frequency basin modes to be resonantly excited depends on the efficiency with which energy fluxed onto the western boundary can be transmitted back to the eastern boundary. This efficiency is ...

Abstract: The theory of first-passage time distribution functions and its extension to last-passage time distribution functions are applied to the problem of tracking the movement of water masses to and from the surface mixed layer ...

Abstract: The double-gyre circulation, formulated in terms of the quasigeostrophic equations, has a symmetry about the basin midlatitude (y ? ?y, ? ? ??), which is absent in a formulation based on the shallow-water equations. As a ...

Abstract: The spectrum of linear free modes of a reduced-gravity ocean in a closed basin with weak dissipation is examined. The constraint of total mass conservation, which in the quasigeostrophic formulation determines the pressure ...

Abstract: A model for the interaction between the midlatitude ocean gyres and the wind stress is formulated for a shallow-water, spherical hemisphere with finite thermocline displacement and the latitudinal dependence of the long ...

Abstract: The steady-state solutions of a barotropic double-gyre ocean model in which the wind stress curl input of vorticity is balanced primarily by bottom friction are studied. The bifurcations away from a unique and stable steady ...

Abstract: data-constrained ocean circulation model is used to characterize the distribution of water masses and their ages in the global ocean. The model is constrained by the time-averaged temperature, salinity, and radiocarbon ...

Abstract: A conceptually new approach to diagnosing tracer-independent ventilation rates is developed. Tracer Green functions are exploited to partition ventilation rates according to the ventilated fluid?s residence time in the ...

Abstract: systematic study is presented of decadal climate variability in the North Pacific. In particular, the hypothesis is addressed that oceanic Rossby basin modes are responsible for enhanced energy at decadal and bidecadal ...