Several extensions of energy balance models (EBMs) are explored in which (i) sea ice acts to insulate the atmosphere from the ocean and (ii) ocean heat transport is allowed to have some meridional structure controlled by the wind, with minima at which the ice edge can rest. These new models support multiple stable ice edges not found in the classical EBM and a hysteresis loop capable of generat...

Two subsurface Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) were deployed in the northeastern South China Sea to study the circulation structure in the area as well as the path and process of the Kuroshio intrusion. The 48 h low-pass filtered data, for the first time, reveal significant intra-seasonal variations in the velocity field. Flow is alternately cyclonic or anticyclonic even within a sing...

A frictional geostrophic model is used to examine how the stability of the thermo haline circulation is a ected by idealized topographic variations and the presence or absence of wind stress If the ow exhibits collapses we consider how topography and wind stress a ect the ensuing oscillations Large scale slope up towards the north or the west can signi cantly destabilize the circulation by modi...

North Pacific decadal oceanic and atmospheric variability is examined from a 650-yr control integration of the Community Climate System Model version 2. The dominant pattern of winter sea surface temperature (SST) variability is similar to the observed “Pacific decadal oscillation,” with maximum amplitude along the Kuroshio Extension. SST anomalies in this region exhibit significant spectral pe...

[1] Wind stress variability over the Benguela upwelling system is considered using 16 months (01 August 1999 to 29 November 2000) of satellite-derived QuikSCAT wind data. Variability is investigated using a type of artificial neural network, the selforganizing map (SOM), and a wavelet analysis. The SOM and wavelet analysis are applied to an extracted data set to find that the system may be divi...

Prey environment, feeding success and condition of blue whiting Micromesistius poutassou larvae were analysed in contrasting meteorological situations west of Ireland in the spring of 2 consecutive years (1994 and 1995). While larval abundance in both years of the study was approximately equal, there were marked differences in the physical and biological environment between the 2 years. 1994 wa...

One of the wind turbine nacelles at Taikoyama wind farm collapsed due to the fatigue failure of high tension bolts. Strain gauges and accelerometers were installed on the wind turbine to verify the aerodynamic model. Furthermore a FEM model was built in order to find out the relationship between tower tube and high tension bolts at the position of flange joint, where the fracture occurred. When...

Definition Wind is air in motion and is basically a vector quantity with a magnitude (speed) and a direction. Ocean surface stress is another vector quantity closely related to wind; it is the turbulent transfer of momentum between the ocean and the atmosphere. Their different applications are summarized in the section "Scientific Significance".

Tropical instability waves (TIWs) are detected in remotely-sensed sea surface height (SSH), temperature (SST), and wind records of the eastern equatorial Pacific. Analyses of TIW anomaly relationships reveal strong dynamical influence of TIWs within approximately 5 of the equator. The first influence is advective heat flux. The primary forcing of TIW SST anomalies is advection of the meridional...

The paper presents results from an experimental and numerical study of wind-induced flows and transportation patterns in highway wet detention ponds. The study presented here is part of a general investigation on road runoff and pollution in respect to wet detention ponds. The objective is to evaluate the quality of long term simulations based on historical rain series of the pollutant discharg...