Large-scale baroclinic and barotropic instabilities, Eady and Charney models for baroclinic instability, and energy transfer. Response of the ocean to transient and steady winds and buoyancy forcing.

The Arctic Ocean (Figure 1), the smallest of the world's five major oceans, is about 4000km (2500 miles) long and 2400km (1500 miles) wide, about the size of the continental USA. It lies entirely ...

The model contains no depth-independent (barotropic) flow, and thus may provide a useful comparison to 2D flows dominated by this flow component. Vortex organizations as shown by snapshots in ...

Deep and shallow equation sets in 3D 17. Quasi-shallow equation sets in 3D 18. Shallow water equation sets in 2D 19. A barotropic potential vorticity (BPV) equation for flow over a spheroidal planet.

Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Student Geophysical Fluid ...