Abstract: The first Lagrangian Analysis and Predictability of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics (LAPCOD) meeting took place in Ischia, Italy, 2?6 October 2000. The material presented at LAPCOD 2000 indicated both a maturing of Lagrangian-based ...

Abstract: Mixing and transport in correspondence of a meandering jet are investigated. The large-scale flow field is a kinematically assigned streamfunction. Two basic mixing mechanisms are considered separately and in combination: ...

Abstract: The surface transport properties in the Adriatic Sea, a semienclosed subbasin of the Mediterranean Sea, have been studied using a drifter dataset in the period December 1994?March 1996. Three main points have been addressed. ...