Abstract: We investigate the interaction of baroclinic equatorial Kelvin waves with realistically sheared background zonal currents in a linearized, continuously stratified model. The background flows are in thermal wind balance and ...

Abstract: We examine the effects of realistically sheared mean currents on low-frequency, low baroclinic mode equatorial Kelvin and Rossby waves. Mean flows can induce significant small-scale zonal velocity fluctuations near the ...

Abstract: A new multiply nested primitive equation ocean model is presented. The model employs a two-way interactive nesting technique successfully applied for many years in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory?NOAA hurricane ...

Abstract: The evolution and propagation of large anticyclonic eddies similar to the Loop Current eddies found in the Gulf of Mexico are studied in a two-layer intermediate equation numerical model. It is found that the propagation ...

Abstract: A two-layer, intermediate equations model that, uniquely, allows for the intersection of the bathymetry with the layer interface is used to study the interaction of isolated Loop Current Eddy (LCE)-type anticyclones with ...

Abstract: The upper ocean response to idealized surface wind forcing that is representative of conditions observed during the TOGA-COARE Intensive Observation Period is studied by numerical simulations using a second-moment closure ...