Abstract: A theory of the depth-averaged currents and sea surface elevation generated by a moving hurricane in a stratified ocean with flat bottom is presented. Using a scale analysis of the depth-integrated momentum and continuity ...

Abstract: An analytical theory is presented for the self-induced translation of an intense vortex relative to a uniform background flow on the ? plane. The equivalent barotropic approximation is used to formulate the initial value ...

Abstract: The nonlinear interaction of a localized vortex with a vertically sheared mean flow has been studied using numerical and asymptotic methods in a multilayer quasigeostrophic model on the beta plane. Numerical solutions ...

Abstract: The authors study the splitting of a coherent vortex by a large-scale baroclinic background current. A criterion for the splitting of the vortex is defined, and the process is then studied numerically and analytically in ...

Abstract: The datasets of the Eddies and Gyre Path Tracking (EGYPT)/EGITTO program in the eastern Mediterranean Sea reveal a large mesoscale anticyclone traveling along the Libyan shelf. Surface drifter trajectories combined with a ...

Abstract: Spatiotemporal evolution of a small localized meander on a Gulf Stream?type baroclinically unstable jet over a topographic slope is investigated numerically using a three-dimensional, primitive equation model. An unperturbed ...

Abstract: The symmetry properties of the Gulf Stream?type jet equilibrated over topographic slope are investigated in a series of idealized numerical experiments. A baroclinically unstable zonal jet equilibrates over a sloping bottom ...