Abstract: An experimental study is made of a baroclinic vortex produced in a two-layer fluid. After the equivalence between the experiment and the heated annulus experiment of Hide is established, it is argued that the Potential ...

Abstract: A simple theory is presented to account for the difference between the temperature at the ocean-air interface and that of the water at a depth of about one meter. Except in very light winds and intense solar radiation the ...

Abstract: Employing one million ship reports gathered in the years 1941?72 seasonal averages of the wind stress and its standard deviation have been computed for the shelf region of the eastern North American continent (out to a ...

Abstract: From the period commencing midsummer 1990 and lasting for 13 months, 13 current meters were deployed on seven moorings at depths between 1000 and 2300 m southeast of Iceland (63°09?N, 17°18?W to 61°44?N, 15°24?W). The ...

Abstract: A conversion formula between pressure and depth is obtained employing the recently adopted equation of state for seawater (Millero et al., 1980). Assuming the ocean of uniform salinity 35 NSU and temperature 0°C the following ...

Abstract: An observational study of cumulus is made from time-lapse film records, and laws describing the growth of cloud thermals (discrete masses of buoyant air) are deduced. The diameter of isolated thermals emerging from the ...

Abstract: Near-bottom currents at depths in exceeds of 5000 m have been measured in the Great Meteor East study area (near 31°30?N, 25°W) over a 3 year period. The sites selected were on top of a small abyssal hill, on its flank, ...

Abstract: An experiment to measure near-bottom currents on the Madeira Abyssal Plain is described. The moorings placed near 33°N, 22°W were separated by 5?40 km with instruments at 10, 100 and 600 m above the bottom (depth ?5300 m). ...

Abstract: An analysis is made of data from 30 Aanderaa recording current meters (RCMs) set on nine moorings located east of Cape Farewell, the southern tip of Greenland. The purpose of the measurements was to allow for the estimation ...

Abstract: A comparison is made between the angular elevation of the visible top of a cloud tower and the top of the radar echo associated with it. Employing a 10-cm WSR-57 radar, we find angular differences between 0 and +1° with ...