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The oceanic mixed layer is a region of intense mixing, where turbulence homogenizes vertical temperature and salinity distributions down to depths of O(100) m. Below the mixed layer, in the upper layers of the stratified thermocline, ...
State of the art fully three-dimensional ocean models are very computationally expensive and their adjoints are even more resource intensive. However, many features of interest are approximated by the first baroclinic mode over much of...
Gravity measurements from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite measuring system show that Greenland is losing mass as water is lost to the ocean. Past work has suggested that the freshwater flux from Greenland, ...
The northern part of the West Florida Shelf (WFS) bends sharply to form Florida's Big Bend coast. Eulerian acoustic Doppler current profiler measurements on this narrowing shelf, the first multiyear in situ measurements in this region, ...
Baroclinic, geostrophic turbulence is random, chaotic flow characterized by significant vertical gradients in density (Bu << 1) in which rotation plays a major role (Ro << 1). In the presence of a large-scale background gradient of...
Since the discovery of the Gulf of Mexico, it has become an area of extensive exploration. The Gulf of Mexico harbors specific commodities that are essential in our modern economy. Oil companies provided money and technology to find and...
Changes in the amount of dissolved oxygen concentration in the Sea of Japan (SOJ) over a number of years have been hypothesized to be due to the amount and depth of deep convection in this region. The first observations of the changes in...
Ocean turbulence is responsible for stirring and spreading ocean tracers, and contributes to the mean circulation as eddy bolus fluxes. The influence of the eddies on the mean circulation becomes particularly important in regions where...
The ridge systems that frame the Lau Basin and Havre Trough, located east of Fiji and north of New Zealand, separating a large counterclockwise gyre at the surface into two smaller gyres at depth. A strong deep western boundary current ...
During an El Niño anomalous westerly winds in the central equatorial Pacific push the equatorial water eastward, raising the sea level in the eastern equatorial Pacific and lowering it in the western equatorial Pacific. In the western...
A medium complexity, nitrogen-based ecosystem model is developed in order to simulate the ecosystem in the northeast tropical Pacific. Several physical processes have major impact on the ecosystem in this region, most importantly intense...
The influence of a geostrophically balanced or potential vorticity (PV) background flow on gravity wave propagation is examined using a rotating shallow water model. The system is analyzed in the context of a perturbative expansion that...
The exchange of momentum, heat, moisture, and gas across the air-sea interface plays a crucial role in atmospheric and oceanic circulations on variety of spatial and temporal scales. That is why improved understanding and realistic...
Fundamental to an understanding of El Niño/Southern Oscillation climate fluctuations is an understanding of the interannual equatorial Pacific surface flows, which advect the surface waters and change the sea surface temperature. While...
TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) sea surface height (SSH) measurements along tracks 91 and 15 crossing the West Florida Shelf (WFS) are used to estimate seasonal across-shelf SSH gradients. These gradients and the knowledge that geostrophic flow...
Oil spills are a frequent occurrence in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). They occur by two principle processes: natural oil seepage and accidental spills during petroleum extraction, transportation, and consumption. Marine oil spill can be...
The cold blob refers to an observationally unprecedented, gyre-scale, record-breaking cold of mean surface temperature over the subpolar North Atlantic. Its anomalous cold feature goes against the rising trend of global mean surface...
Over the past few decades, Southeast Australia has experienced severe regional climatic events, including devastating floods and some of the most extreme droughts on record, linked in part to influences from both the El Niño Southern...
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