Abstract: The instability of zonally and temporally invariant, equatorial, zonal flow is found to be tied directly to the presence of critical layers within the fluid. Insight into the mechanism of instability can, therefore, be ...

Abstract: The interaction of long equatorial Rossby waves with mean zonal currents in the ocean is investigated in a continuously stratified finite difference numerical model. The model allows for realistic specification of the mean ...

Abstract: An analytic linearized continuously stratified model which explains low-frequency response of wide deep estuaries to non-local forcing is developed. The dynamic model used for the coastal ocean is similar to that of McCreay ...

Abstract: Shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP)-derived zonal currents from 170° to 110°W are assembled into composite seasonal and ENSO cycles to produce detailed representations of large-scale ocean flow regimes that ...

Abstract: One of the striking features of tropical instability waves (TIWs) is that they appear to be more prominent north of the equator. A linearized, 2½-layer ocean model is used to investigate effects of various asymmetric ...

Abstract: A numerical model is designed to study the effects of the strong, near-surface associated with the equatorial current system on energy transmission of time-periodic equatorial waves into the deep mean. The present paper ...