Abstract: In this short note we describe and discuss an unusual field of small-scale baroclinic vortices, observed through CTD casts in a small geographical zone (?6 ? 9 km) near the East Sicilian coast of the Ionian Sea (Eastern ...

Abstract: The Ertel potential vorticity theorem for stratified viscous fluids in a rotating system is analyzed herein. A set of ?tracers,? that is, materially conserved scalar quantities, and the corresponding Ertel potential ...