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Abstract: The problem of geostrophic adjustment, originally considered by C.G. Rossby, is solved in an axisymmetric geometry for a continuously stratified fluid, where the adjusted final state is in hydrostatic, gradient-wind balance. ...

Abstract: Observations of float trajectories and vertical density profiles from the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment are analyzed in terms of a likely equation of motion for mesoscale eddies involving the conservation of quasi-geostrophic ...

Abstract: From measurements made during the 1973 Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment in the western North Atlantic, horizontal maps of the total dynamic pressure (or, in the geostrophic approximation, streamfunction) have been constructed ...

Abstract: The beta effect on the evolution of intrathermocline vortices, such as anticyclonic Mediterranean Water eddies (meddies), is investigated in a quasigeostrophic numerical model with fine high vertical resolution. The authors ...

Abstract: This paper considers several influences of mixing on the stability of oceanic boundary currents, analyzed primarily in terms of the effects of mixing on the distribution of potential vorticity. This perspective relates ...

Abstract: Large-scale extratropical motions (with dimensions comparable to, or somewhat smaller than, the planetary radius) in the atmosphere and ocean exhibit a more restricted range of phenomena than are admissible in the primitive ...

Abstract: The isopycnal transport parameterization of Gent and Mc Williams has been implemented in the GFDL ocean general circulation model, replacing the physically unjustifiable horizontal mixing of tracers. The effects of this ...

Abstract: The low-order, nine-component, primitive equation model of Lorenz (1980) is used as the basis for a comparative study of the quality of several intermediate models. All the models are intermediate between the primitive ...

Abstract: Ocean?atmosphere interaction plays a key role in climate fluctuations on interdecadal timescales. In this study, different aspects of this interaction are investigated using an idealized ocean?atmosphere model, and a ...