Abstract: A baroclinic laminar model is developed as the late-time equilibrium state in the free decay of rotating stratified turbulence under low-Froude-number scaling. Vertical motions are suppressed by stratification and ambient ...

Abstract: A general property on the phase relation in linear baroclinic instability is proved analytically: in a potential vorticity homogenization regime, the complex geometry of the quasigeostrophic equations determines that the ...

Abstract: An equivalent-barotropic (EB) description of the tropospheric temperature field is derived from the geostrophic empirical mode (GEM) in the form of a scalar function Γ(p, ?), where p is pressure and ? is 300?850-mb thickness. ...

Abstract: A streamfunction EOF method is developed to identify long-term thermohaline variations within a strong baroclinic current. The temporal variability associated with meandering fronts and mesoscale eddies is removed by ...

Abstract: South of Australia, where the baroclinicity in the Subantarctic Front extends almost to the seafloor, the geopotential height of the sea surface (?) and the vertical acoustic travel time (τ) exhibit a tight empirical ...