A Summary of Papers Related to Mesoscale and Large-Scale Ocean Modeling. Volume I

摘要

This technical note contains summaries of the important ideas and results from 13 papers related to mesoscale and large scale ocean modeling. Most of the papers represent major contributions to our understanding of the dynamics and energetics of mesoscale eddies and their interaction with ocean currents and with each other. Understanding the nature of flow instabilities associated with the generation and evolution of the eddies is an important aspect of the problem which receives much attention in these papers. Most of the numerical simulations utilized simple two-layer, eddy-resolving, quasi-geostrophic models; a small number used primitive equation models. (Author)