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Can vertical mixing arrest ocean frontogenesis?
Matthew N. Crowe
Frontogenesis is the process by which ocean fronts--regions of strong horizontal density gradients in the upper ocean--strengthen. It is a highly non-linear phenomenon arising from…
Symmetry breaking and nonlinear transformation of two-layer eastward propagating dipoles
Matthew. N. Crowe, Georgi. G. Sutyrin
We study the evolution of eastward propagating dipoles (modons) in a two-layer quasi-geostrophic -plane model using high-resolution numerical simulations. Various combinations o…
Spectral Methods for Coastal-Trapped Waves and Instabilities in a Background Flow
Matthew N. Crowe, Edward R. Johnson
Here we present a numerical method for finding non-hydrostatic coastal-trapped wave and instability solutions to the non-hydrostatic Boussinesq equations in the presence of a backg…
Modon solutions in an N-layer quasi-geostrophic model
Matthew N. Crowe, Edward R. Johnson
Modons, or dipolar vortices, are common and long-lived features of the upper ocean, consisting of a pair of monopolar vortices moving through self-advection. Such structures remain…
The evolution of surface quasi-geostrophic modons on sloping topography
Matthew N. Crowe, Edward R. Johnson
This work discusses modons, or dipolar vortices, propagating along sloping topography. Two different regimes exist which are studied separately using the surface quasi-geostrophic…
Oceanic dipoles in a surface quasigeostrophic model
E. R. Johnson, M. N. Crowe
Analysis of satellite altimetry and Argo float data leads Ni et al. (2020, JGR Oceans) to argue that mesoscale dipoles are widespread features of the global ocean having a relative…
The modification of turbulent thermal wind balance by non-traditional effects
Matthew N. Crowe
The meridional component of the earth's rotation is often neglected in geophysical contexts. This is referred to as the `traditional approximation' and is justified by the typicall…
The propagation and decay of a coastal vortex on a shelf
Matthew N. Crowe, Edward R. Johnson
A coastal eddy is modelled as a barotropic vortex propagating along a coastal shelf. If the vortex speed matches the phase speed of any coastal trapped shelf wave modes, a shelf wa…