Abstract: The Alaskan Stream boundary current south of the uniformly curving coastline formed by the Alaskan peninsula-Aleutian Island chain is examined analytically via steady, barotropic frictional theory. It is shown that, as a ...

Abstract: We consider the effect of a randomly varying horizontal advective flow on internal gravity waves propagating vertically in a nonrotating, stratified and unbounded fluid. Attention is focused on the alteration in the vertical ...

Abstract: This paper describes the circulation, water properties and energetics of an observed cyclonic eddy that formed over the continental margin of Vancouver Island between late July and early September, 1980. The eddy was ...

Abstract: Thirty-year time series of hydrographic observations from Ocean Station PAPA and Line ?P? are used to estimate secular trends in monthly mean steric sea level heights relative to depths of 100 and 1000 decibars in the ...

Abstract: Linear analytical solutions for bottom-trapped subinertial oscillatory flow over simple ridge topographies in a stratified (two-layer) rotating fluid are presented. Results are compared to moored current meter observations ...

Abstract: This paper presents a simple diagnostic model for estimating mixed layer depth based solely on the one-dimensional heat balance equation, the surface heat flux, and the sea surface temperature. The surface fluxes drive ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional finite element model is used to calculate the barotropic tides and seasonal buoyancy flows off the western and northern coasts of Vancouver Island. The model buoyancy currents and the harmonics of eight ...

Abstract: Tide, current and water property data collected in the western basin of Johnstone Strait, British Columbia, are compared with analytical models for M2 semidiurnal motions in a stratified, rotating channel of uniform depth. ...

Abstract: Satellite-tracked surface drifters deployed in September 1993 in the vicinity of the Kuril?Kamchatka Trench were advected onto the Pacific continental shelf of the Kuril Islands where they encountered strong (40?50 cm s?1) ...

Abstract: Cape St. James is an extensive triangular-shaped promontory located in a tidally energetic region at the southern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands approximately 150 km off the mainland coast or British Columbia. Several ...