Abstract: Stationary and transient states of a two-layer fjord-type estuary are discussed analytically. The forcing functions are the outer salinity S0, the fresh-water supply qf, and a meteorologically forced barotropic transport ...

Abstract: A three-dimensional regime with a differentially heated mixed layer on top of an ideal fluid interior is considered in a situation which corresponds to the interior of the well-known wind-driven model by Stommel (1948). ...

Abstract: A special three-dimensional solution of similarity type is given for a meridionally closed ocean with dynamic according to Stommel's classical transport model, and with the density determined by three-dimensional advection ...

Abstract: The hypothesis of a zonally uniform regime for the interior oceanic circulation is advanced. The regime is found theoretically in frictional models, such as the one by Stommel (1948), when the meridional scale is small ...

Abstract: A continuously stratified inertial boundary current in a ?-plane possesses a similarity solution for the pressure of the formwhere A0(y), k0(y), z0(y) are arbitrary functions, n is an arbitrary constant. It can satisfy the ...

Abstract: Rossby's (1936) wake stream theory of the Gulf Stream is revived and generalized. Including the ?-effect, the volume transport of the Stream should increase faster than predicted by the Tollmien-Rossby formula, in agreement ...

Abstract: The pressure along a closed hydrographic section can be correctly calculated from density data, in the ideal case of perfectly steady, geostrophic, density-conserving flow; and from dense, error-free data, excluding certain ...

Abstract: In a uniform-depth ocean forced by a wind stress and surface heat flux (or surface temperature) which are independent of longitude, there exists a possible thermocline regime with vanishing east-west temperature gradient. ...