Abstract: The energetics of the wind-driven, quasigeostrophic circulation is used to rule out the vanishing of the Sverdrup solution in the western boundary of the ocean, apart from the total solution near the eastern boundary. The ...

Abstract: The evolution of a coastal current as it encounters an escarpment depends strongly on whether the geometry of the coast and escarpment is right or left ?handed,? independent of the direction of the coastal current. Handedness ...