Hydrodynamical modeling of oceanic vortices

X Carton - Surveys in Geophysics, 2001‏ - Springer
Mesoscale coherent vortices are numerous in the ocean. Though they possess various
structures in temperature and salinity, they are all long-lived, fairly intense and mostly …

Saturn's polar atmosphere

KM Sayanagi, KH Baines, U Dyudina… - Saturn in the 21st …, 2018‏ - books.google.com
This chapter reviews the state of our knowledge about Saturn's polar atmosphere that has
been revealed through Earth-and space-based observation as well as theoretical and …

Eddy-mean flow interactions in the along-stream development of a western boundary current jet: An idealized model study

S Waterman, SR Jayne - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2011‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
A theoretical study on the role of eddy-mean flow interactions in the time-mean dynamics of
a zonally evolving, unstable, strongly inertial jet in a configuration and parameter regime that …

Generation of large-scale eddies and zonal winds in planetary atmospheres

OG Onishchenko, OA Pokhotelov… - Physics …, 2008‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The review deals with a theoretical description of the generation of zonal winds and vortices
in a turbulent barotropic atmosphere. These large-scale structures largely determine the …

Eddy variability in the Kuroshio Extension as revealed by Geosat altimetry: Energy propagation away from the jet, Reynolds stress, and seasonal cycle

CK Tai, WB White - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1990‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Altimetric sea level data around the Kuroshio Extension, collected during the first year of the
Geosat Exact Repeat Mission (ERM)(starting in November 1986), have been analyzed for …

Lagrangian motion and fluid exchange in a barotropic meandering jet

AM Rogerson, PD Miller, LJ Pratt… - Journal of Physical …, 1999‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Kinematic models predict that a coherent structure, such as a jet or an eddy, in an unsteady
flow can exchange fluid with its surroundings. The authors consider the significance of this …

Interaction between Rossby waves and a jet flow: Basic equations and verification for the Antarctic circumpolar current

VG Gnevyshev, AV Frolova, AA Kubryakov… - … and Oceanic Physics, 2019‏ - Springer
The article focuses on the interaction of Rossby waves in the ocean with zonal jet flows. A
new approach is proposed to show that nonlinearity in the long-wave approximation exactly …

Lateral mixing and the North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment: Observations and numerical simulations of Lagrangian particles and a passive tracer

MA Sundermeyer, JF Price - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1998‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mixing and stirring of Lagrangian particles and a passive tracer were studied by comparison
of float and tracer observations from the North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment (NATRE) …

Jet instability over smooth, corrugated, and realistic bathymetry

JH Lacasce, J Escartin… - Journal of Physical …, 2019‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
The stability of a horizontally and vertically sheared surface jet is examined, with a focus on
the vertical structure of the resultant eddies. Over a flat bottom, the instability is mixed …

Quantifying transport in numerically generated velocity fields

PD Miller, C Jones, AM Rogerson, LJ Pratt - Physica D: Nonlinear …, 1997‏ - Elsevier
Geometric methods from dynamical systems are used to study Lagrangian transport in
numerically generated, time-dependent, two-dimensional (2D) vector fields. The flows …