Abstract: AbstractThis study is focused on finescale dissipation mechanisms of intrathermocline mesoscale vortices exemplified by meddies, large anticyclonic salt lenses of Mediterranean origin commonly observed in the lower North ...

Abstract: AbstractThe modulation of large-scale eddying flows by gentle variation in topography is examined using a combination of direct numerical simulations and theoretical arguments. The basic state is represented by a laterally ...

Abstract: Residual-mean theory is applied to the streamwise-averaged Antarctic Circumpolar Current to arrive at a concise description of the processes that set up its stratification and meridional overturning circulation on an f ...

Abstract: The dynamics of a warm lens created by a surface buoyancy flux and Ekman pumping in an initially homogeneous, unbounded fluid on a ? plane is studied in a set of high-resolution numerical experiments. A simple analytical ...

Abstract: High-resolution numerical experiments are diagnosed to study the integral effects of geostrophic eddy fluxes on the large-scale ocean circulation. Three characteristic large-scale flows are considered: 1) an anticyclonic ...

Abstract: A model for the vertical structure of ocean gyres is presented that extends the ideal thermocline theories of Rhines and Young and Luyten et al. to include a cross-layer volume flux associated with geostrophic eddy transfer. ...

Abstract: A simple theory is developed for the large-scale three-dimensional structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the upper cell of its overturning circulation. The model is based on a perturbation expansion about the ...

Abstract: Analytical solutions of the shallow-water system of equations in a 1½-layer f-plane model are obtained for stable quasi-monopolar vortices propagating due to a dipolar (azimuthal mode m = 1) component whose amplitude is ...

Abstract: This study examines dynamics of finescale instabilities in thermohaline?shear flows. It is shown that the presence of the background diapycnal temperature and salinity fluxes due to double diffusion has a destabilizing ...

Abstract: If an azimuthally symmetric barotropic eddy on the f plane is subject to a relatively small amplitude disturbance of unit azimuthal wavenumber (m = 1), it can propagate very many diameters away from its origin, as shown ...