Abstract: The presence of broad, flowing water masses in the deep ocean requires dynamical explanation. Vertical density diffusion and?-effect are invoked in classical theories; here we show how topographic potential vorticity can ...

Abstract: Simulations of the wind-driven Ocean circulation, carded out with an eddy-resolving quasi-geostrophic numerical model, and symmetric, idealized wind forcing have a large-scale structure that is predicted wen by the steady ...

Abstract: Some effects of Greenland on the Northern Hemisphere wintertime circulation are discussed. Inviscid pressure drag on Greenland?s slopes, calculated from reanalysis data, is related to circulation patterns. Greenland lies ...

Abstract: The turbulent bottom boundary layer for rotating, stratified flow along a slope is explored through theory and numerical simulation. The model flow begins with a uniform current along constant-depth contours and with flat ...

Abstract: The convective building of a pycnocline is examined using a two-dimensional nonhydrostatic numerical model forced by a balanced salinity dipole (source and sink). Although the forcing fields are steady, the model develops ...

Abstract: The convective building of a pycnocline is examined using a laboratory model forced by surface fluxes of saline water at one end and fresh water at the other. A deep recirculation evolves in the tank, which homogenizes the ...

Abstract: Gyre scale and local vorticity balances are examined for a single numerical experiment designed to elucidate the role of eddies in the oceanic general circulation. Due to the complex nature of the flow, a combination of ...

Abstract: Experiments are performed using a two-layer isopycnic numerical model in a zonal channel with a large meridional topographic ridge in the lower layer. The model is forced only by a steady meridional volume transport in the ...

Abstract: During June?November 1994, a mooring in the central Labrador Sea near the former Ocean Weather Station Bravo recorded a half-dozen anomalous events that prove to be two different types of coherent eddies. Comparisons with ...

Abstract: eep convection?the process by which surface waters are mixed down to 1000 m or deeper?forms the primary downwelling of the meridional overturning circulation in the Northern Hemisphere. High-resolution hydrographic ...