Abstract: The feasibility of using a subgrid-scale eddy parameterization, based on statistical mechanics of potential vorticity, is investigated. A specific implementation is derived for the somewhat classic barotropic vorticity ...

Abstract: Previous laboratory experiments and associated numerical models of laminar flows forced by oscillatory, along-shelf background currents are extended to include some of the effects of boundary-generated turbulence. The ...

Abstract: The banded organization of clouds and zonal winds in the atmospheres of the outer planets has long fascinated observers. Several recent studies in the theory and idealized modeling of geostrophic turbulence have suggested ...

Abstract: Summer near-surface temperatures over the northeast coast of the Antarctic Peninsula have increased by more than 2°C over the past 40 years, a temperature increase 3 times greater than that on the northwest coast. Recent ...