Abstract: The Lagrangian motions of floating matter on the sea surface were simulated by using the surface current data based on shipdrift data produced by Meehl. The validity of the simulation was confirmed by comparing the results ...

Abstract: The fundamental modes of oscillation of a coupled atmosphere?ocean basin system in the presence of a spatially varying oceanic basic state are investigated by formulating and solving an eigenvalue problem, thereby extending ...

Abstract: The effect of nonlinearities on a previously investigated coupled atmosphere?ocean basin mode is examined. The nonlinearity in the thermodynamic equation for sea surface temperature arises mainly from the dependence of ...

Abstract: In order to test certain aspects of the ENSO mechanism proposed by Suarez and Schopf and by Battisti and Hirst, we force a shallow water ocean with 28 years of observed (FSU) winds and decompose both the atmospheric forcing ...