Abstract: We investigate the interaction of baroclinic equatorial Kelvin waves with realistically sheared background zonal currents in a linearized, continuously stratified model. The background flows are in thermal wind balance and ...

Abstract: We examine the effects of realistically sheared mean currents on low-frequency, low baroclinic mode equatorial Kelvin and Rossby waves. Mean flows can induce significant small-scale zonal velocity fluctuations near the ...