Abstract: he impact of shelf slope on the linear stability of buoyant coastal currents and on the nonlinear formation of coastal meanders and eddies is investigated. The authors consider a simplified two-layer stratification in ...

Abstract: AbstractWe investigate the linear stability of intense baroclinic anticyclones, with a particular focus on the centrifugal (inertial) instability. Various vertical and radial velocity profiles are studied. The vertical ...

Abstract: Large-scale vortices, that is, eddies whose characteristic length scale is larger than the local Rossby radius of deformation Rd, are ubiquitous in the oceans, with anticyclonic vortices more prevalent than cyclonic ones. ...

Abstract: AbstractAutomated methods are important for the identification of mesoscale eddies in the large volume of oceanic data provided by altimetric measurements and numerical simulations. This paper presents an optimized algorithm ...