Abstract: A large-scale longitudinal variation in surface temperature in the North Pacific is described by an analysis of some existing data and some newer data. When monthly mean surface temperatures are plotted against longitude ...

Abstract: Extensive STD data at a 100 km station spacing from a recent winter cruise (March?April 1976) along 35°N between California and Japan are used to describe the large-scale (5000 km) shallow salinity minimum within the upper ...

Abstract: The influence of longitudinal variations in wind stress curt on the steady circulation in a rectangular ocean basin is investigated analytically in a linear barotropic model. It is shown that longitudinal variations in the ...

Abstract: Two physical ideas are combined to derive an expression for the depth of wave influence of a surface gravity wave without assuming the fluid motion is irrotational. One idea is that in the reference frame which makes the ...

Abstract: Several independent data sources suggest that there is a net upper-layer mass flux O(3 Sv) (Sv ≡ 106 m3 s?1) to the west in the central Gulf of Mexico, even though the western gulf is a closed basin. A plausible explanation ...

Abstract: Linear momentum of surface gravity waves changes with time during refraction by a horizontally variable current, as is predicted by ray theory; the momentum change per unit time requires a force by the current on the waves. ...