Abstract: nalyzed fields of ocean circulation and the flux form of the potential vorticity equation are used to map the creation and subsequent circulation of low potential vorticity waters known as subtropical mode water (STMW) in ...

Abstract: ubantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) is examined using the data-assimilating, eddy-permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate, for 2005 and 2006. Surface formation due to air?sea buoyancy flux is estimated using Walin analysis, and ...

Abstract: his study focuses on the description of an oceanic variant of the Charney baroclinic instability, arising from the joint presence of (i) an equatorward buoyancy gradient that extends from the surface into the ocean interior ...

Abstract: The Walin water mass framework quantifies the rate at which water is transformed from one temperature class to another by air?sea heat fluxes (transformation). The divergence of the transformation rate yields the rate at ...

Abstract: The seasonal cycle in the volume and formation rate of Eighteen Degree Water (EDW) in the North Atlantic is quantified over the 3-yr period from 2004 to 2006. The EDW layer is defined as all waters that have a temperature ...

Abstract: he stationary atmospheric response to an idealized sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) is studied with a quasigeostrophic atmospheric model of the Southern Hemisphere. Sensitivity of the stationary response to the ...

Abstract: The modulation of air?sea heat fluxes by geostrophic eddies due to the stirring of temperature at the sea surface is discussed and quantified. It is argued that the damping of eddy temperature variance by such air?sea ...

Abstract: he international Argo program, consisting of a global array of more than 3000 free-drifting profiling floats, has now been monitoring the upper 2000 m of the ocean for several years. One of its main proposed evolutions is ...

Abstract: This study demonstrates the long-term stability of salinity measurements from Argo floats equipped with inductive conductivity cells, which have extended float lifetimes as compared to electrode-type cells. New Argo float ...