Prefrontal squall lines are mesoscale convective systems that often cannot be linked to any preexisting organizing mechanism. This suggests the possibility that they are self-forced disturbances, driven by a cooperative interaction between convective and larger scales. To investigate this hypothesis, a wave-CISK model is developed for two-dimensional disturbances in a baroclinic basic state wit...

This brief summarizes work devoted to studying the linear stability of baroclinic protoplanetary Keplerian disks. This work largely builds on the foundation and fundamental results obtained by Barranco, Marcus & Umurhan (2000) (hereafter BMU) which presented a model to describe structures in weakly baroclinic Keplerian disks. Interest in protoplanetary disks has grown since the discovery of the...

-A two-component smectic undergoing a demixing tran~ition to two coexisting smectic pha~es exhibits a novel spinodal pattern as observed by light ~cattering and optical microscopy. We show that this ~pinodal, characterized by a prescribed angle between the mo~t intense wavevectors and the layer normal, is the result of the instability of the baroclinic mode of two-cojnponent smectic hydrodynamics.

The modelling of baroclinic tides generated in the northern South China Sea is studied using a fully-nonlinear non-hydrostatic numerical model. The focus of the modelling efforts was on the vertical structure of internal waves in the vicinity of the Luzon Strait. The barotropic tidal flow interacting with a two-ridge bottom topography in the area of the Luzon Strait produces a complex baroclini...

Ocean models in box geometry forced by constant surface fluxes of density have been found to spontaneously generate interdecadal oscillations of the thermohaline circulation. This paper analyzes the sensitivity of these oscillations to various physical effects, including the presence of mesoscale turbulence, various thermal surface boundary conditions, and the presence of wind forcing or bottom...