Abstract: Recent general circulation simulations suggest that, prior to the closure of the Panama Isthmus (the narrow strip of land connecting North and South America), low-salinity Pacific Ocean water invaded the Atlantic Ocean via ...

Abstract: An analytical method for computing the speed at which the nose of a light (rotating) intrusion advances along a continental shelf is proposed. The nonlinear model includes two active layer; the intrusion itself, which ...

Abstract: A different way of looking at the meridional warm water (σ? < 26.8) flux in the South and North Atlantic is proposed. The approach involves the blending of observational aspects into analytical modeling, which allows one ...

Abstract: Sea-level measurements along the western coast of the Americas have shown that there is a strong signal at ENSO frequencies (approximately 2π/2 yr?1 to 2π/5 yr?1) that propagates poleward at about 40 to 90 cm s?1. This ...

Abstract: Friction, the alongshore pressure gradient and time-dependent effects are all of lowest-order importance in the dynamics of wind-driven fluctuating currents and sea levels on continental shelves. Previous work has shown ...

Abstract: Previous work has shown that the widely used Tahiti minus Darwin Southern Oscillation index has a sharp decrease in persistence in the boreal spring. It is suggested that this persistence barrier is due to a purely biennial ...

Abstract: n meteorology and oceanography, and other fields, it is often necessary to fit a straight line to some points and estimate its slope. If both variables corresponding to the points are noisy, the slope as estimated by the ...

Abstract: Using a nonlinear ?reduced gravity? model it is shown analytically that a large buoyant midlatitude outflow situated along the northern boundary of a ?-plane ocean produces an unusually broad westward flow. The steady ...

Abstract: The authors develop a method for the long-lead forecasting of El Niño?influenced rainfall probability and illustrate it using the economically important prediction, from the beginning of the year, of September?November ...