Review of several recent ocean surface wave models finds that while comprehensive in many regards, these spectral models do not satisfy certain additional, but fundamental, criteria. We propose that these criteria include the ability to properly describe diverse fetch c...

The flow of the low‐salinity Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) at 700–1150 m depth across the Rio Grande Rise and the lower Santos Plateau is studied under the auspices of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) in the context of the Deep Basin Experiment. Our d...

[1] Steric height (SH) variability computed from Argo profiling buoys data for the North Atlantic and period 1999–2006 is analyzed and compared to the variability computed from the satellite altimetry data. It is demonstrated that although the contribution from haloster...

A series of 26 meteorological rockets ("falling spheres,'' FS) were launched in January and February 1998 from the Antarctic research station Rothera (68degreesS, 68degreesW). These flights gave densities and temperatures below similar to93 km and horizontal winds below...

[1] An aerosol optical closure study was performed using the observed high time- and size-resolved soot mixing states determined by a Volatility Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer (VTDMA) at a polluted regional site, Yufa, in the south of Beijing during the summer of...

Subduction erosion has dominated the evolution of the north Chile convergent continental margin since at least the Mesozoic. We investigate the structure of the Antofagasta (23°S) sector of this margin along a transect using coincident wide-angle and near-vertical seism...

(1) The SUDETES 2003 seismic experiment investigated the lithospheric structure of the eastern part of the Variscan belt of central Europe. The key profile of this experiment (S01) was 630 km long and extended southwestward from the margin of the East European craton, a...

Detailed glaciological studies have been completed at 28 sites lying on an approximate flow line, extending 760 km across Ronne Ice Shelf. Parameters measured at each location include ice velocity, thickness, principal strain rates, surface elevation, temperature, and a...

Sediment trap moorings were deployed from September 21, 1997 through February 21, 1998 at three locations south of Australia along 140degreesE: at similar to47degreesS in the central Subantarctic Zone (SAZ) with traps at 1060, 2050, and 3850 m depth, at similar to51degr...

As part of the French CLIPPER project, an eddy permitting model of the Atlantic circulation has been run for 22 years. The domain has open boundaries at Drake passage and at 30 degreesE, from Africa to Antarctica. The simulated mean circulation, as well as the eddy acti...