Abstract: This paper describes qualitative features of the generation of jetlike concentrated circulations, wakes, and blocks by simple mountainlike orography, both from idealized laboratory experiments and shallow-water numerical ...

Abstract: his paper presents new observations of the overflow waters downstream of the Faroe Bank Channel (FBC) and the Iceland?Faroe Ridge (IFR). Between 2006 and 2009, over 17 400 hydrographic profiles were collected during quarterly ...

Abstract: A scatter diagram may be constructed by choosing an appropriate closed or open horizontal curve in physical space and plotting the value of any scalr quantity q against the geostrophic streamfunction ? for each data point ...

Abstract: Two models of advection-diffusion in the oscillatory, sheared-velocity field of an internal wave are discussed. Our goal is to develop intuition about the role of such currents in horizontal ocean mixing through the mechanism ...

Abstract: Results from new experiments on baroclinic instability of a coastal jet demonstrate that this almost balanced flow spontaneously emits inertial waves when the Rossby radius of deformation is relatively small such that the ...