Abstract: Bathythermograph data from the equatorial Pacific are used to study changes in upper ocean thermal structure during the period 1971?73 using data averaged over 2- or 3-month segments. This gives reasonable descriptions of ...

Abstract: The Rossby adjustment process in the wake of a storm is studied with a view to finding, within the context of linear theory, how wave dispersion in both the vertical and meridional directions spreads energy which is initially ...

Abstract: This paper has two main parts. First, it is shown that if the dynamics is simplified by assuming a one-mode, low-frequency (or long-wave) model, the whole field of anomalous motion in the tropical region can he deduced ...

Abstract: Currents [O(0.1 m sec?1)] and sea-level variations [O(0.1 m)] on the continental shelf can be produced when atmospheric disturbances pass by. Since the atmospheric systems have length scales large compared with the width ...

Abstract: Calculations are made of the changes in the structure of an inertial current which can be induced by slow changes in the topography of the continental shelf and slope along which it flows. The particular case of a uniform ...

Abstract: The long period response of sea level on the eastern boundary of the Pacific separates, for linear dynamics, into a remotely forced part mainly due to zonal winds along the equator to the west and a locally driven part ...

Abstract: The early stages of the adjustment of an ocean toward equilibrium is examined using an ocean general circulation model. The initial state is one with uniform meridional potential temperature gradients yielding density ...

Abstract: We develop a linear, reduced-gravity model with two active layers above a deep, resting layer to examine the scattering of equatorial Kelvin waves from meridional submarine ridges. Model ridges, idealized as infinitely ...