Abstract: An infinitely deep stratified ocean on a equatorial beta plane is forced with a periodic wind system. The resulting linearized motion is shown to result in a deep cellular flow structure in rough agreement with recent ...

Abstract: The irregular space-time sampling of any finite region by an orbiting satellite raises difficult questions as to which frequencies and wavenumbers can be determined and which will alias into others. Conventional sampling ...

Abstract: The dominant contributor to the random error of an altimetric satellite system is the long wavelength uncertainty in the orbital radius. It is shown that calibration by a comparatively modest tide gauge system can drastically ...

Abstract: To produce an interpretation of the surface kinetic energy as measured by altimeters, a survey is made of the vertical structure of kinetic energy profiles in a large number of globally distributed long current meter ...

Abstract: Difficulties remain with theoretical explanations of the apparent reduced zonal sea surface temperature gradient in the tropical Pacific of the Pliocene. One favored hypothesis is that it was a ?permanent El Niño? state, ...

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Abstract: Atmospheric meridional heat transport is inferred as a residual from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) data and in situ oceanic estimates. Reversing the conventional approach of computing the ocean as an atmospheric ...

Abstract: A model of the Atlantic has been formulated that combines ordinary quasi-geostrophic constraints (based upon the dynamic method and Ekman layer) with a great variety of additional information available about the time-average ...

Abstract: The modal decomposition, proportional amplitudes, and lateral spatial scale of baroclinic motions in the North Atlantic Ocean are described as determined from more than 20 years of moored instrument data. The subtropical ...