Abstract: Andrew F. Bunker was a research scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for over 30 years until his death in 1979. He was interested in the energy exchanges between the atmosphere and ocean, and devised ...

Abstract: As an alternative to small amplitude continuous theories we study the disintegration of warm pools of fluid on a rotating earth using clouds of baroclinic point vortices, or hetons. The equations describing the motion of ...

Abstract: For layered analogues of the ocean stratification, the problem of maximizing buoyancy flux across a section with zero mass flux is considered. The two layer situation on an f-plane is particularly simple and it is shown ...

Abstract: Structure and stability of the multiple equilibria of the thermohaline circulation am studied using 2 ? 2 and 3 ? 2 box models. Thermohaline catastrophe is a shallow phenomenon and its time evolution consists of three ...