Abstract: The low-frequency dynamics of the double-gyre wind-driven circulation in large midlatitude oceanic basins is investigated. It is shown that for quasigeostrophic models linear (Rayleigh) friction is necessary to obtain ...

Abstract: In idealized models that aim to understand the temporal variability of the wind-driven ocean circulation, low-frequency instabilities associated with so-called oscillatory gyre modes have been found. For the double-gyre ...

Abstract: This study examines the flow induced by an east?west-oriented oceanic thermal front in a highly idealized baroclinic model. Previous work showed that thermal fronts could produce energetic midlatitude jets in an ...

Abstract: This study examines the flow induced in a highly idealized atmospheric model by an east?west-oriented oceanic thermal front. The model has a linear marine boundary layer coupled to a quasigeostrophic, equivalent- barotropic ...

Abstract: Successive bifurcations?from steady states through periodic to aperiodic solutions?are studied in a shallow-water, reduced-gravity, 2½-layer model of the midlatitude ocean circulation subject to time-independent wind stress. ...

Abstract: The time-dependent wind-driven ocean circulation is investigated for both a rectangular and a North Atlantic?shaped basin. Multiple steady states in a 2½-layer shallow-water model and their dependence on various parameters ...

Abstract: he atmospheric effects of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies over and near western boundary currents are a matter of renewed interest. The general circulation model (GCM) of the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique ...