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RISNOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Constituent Boussinesq Equations for Waves and Currents
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Boussinesq long-wave equations in constituent form are generalized to encompass both the irrotational long-wave dynamics and the rotational current dynamics. For irrotational long waves, the generalized equations are ...
Mesoscale Modal Coupling
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Observations of mesoscale ocean eddies from the 1973 Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE) are used to calculate, by objective analysis, the modal coefficients, which are functions of horizontal position and time, in a ...
Statistics of Internal Wave Overturning from Observations of Upper Ocean Temperature
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The seasonal thermocline in the Sargasso Sea near 30°45?N, 71°45?W was measured in July 1981 using a towed thermistor army with ?0.5 m horizontal and vertical resolution. A 200-km long section of the survey path is analyzed ...
Polynomial Chaos Quantification of the Growth of Uncertainty Investigated with a Lorenz Model
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A time-dependent physical model whose initial condition is only approximately known can predict the evolving physical state to only within certain error bounds. In the prediction of weather, as well as its ocean counterpart, ...
Current Shear–Inertial Wave Interaction in the Sargasso Sea
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Acoustic Doppler profiler measurements of inertial waves embedded within the high shell region of a cold core ring in the Sargasso Sea are described. By repeatedly traversing the same point from different directions, a ...
Water Mass Structure during the POLYMODE Local Dynamics Experiment
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The seven intensive hydrographic surveys of temperature, salinity and oxygen of the POLYMODE local Dynamics Experiment (LDE) (15 May?15 July 1978) were carded out in a 200 km-wide octagonal region centered at 31°05?N, ...
The Mesoscale Spatial Structure and Evolution of Dynamical and Scalar Properties Observed in the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean during the POLYMODE Local Dynamics Experiment
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Dynamical properties examined in this paper are the dynamic height and the pressure on an isopycnal. Scalars are the salinity and the oxygen concentration on an isopycnal. The sea surface temperature and salinity are also ...
Internal-Inertial Waves in a Surgasso Sea Front
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This work examines the presence of internal-inertial waves in a front in the North Atlantic subtropical convergence zone. Results of Doppler shear profiler and towed thermistor chain surveys are displayed to document the ...
Detection, Structure, and Origin of Extreme Anomalies in a Western Atlantic Oceanographic Section
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Ten anomalous water parcels were detected in the water column of a western Atlantic oceanographic section (0?5550 m; 70°W; 23?33°N). The parcels had extreme properties lying either two standard deviations from historical ...