Nonlinear Processes in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: A tribute to the scientific work of Pedro Ripa

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Ripa’s Theorem and its Relatives....Pages 1-14
Deep Ocean Influence on Upper Ocean Baroclinic Instability Saturation....Pages 15-28
Constrained-Hamiltonian Shallow-Water Dynamics on the Sphere....Pages 29-51
Hamiltonian Description of Fluid and Plasma Systems with Continuous Spectra....Pages 53-69
Stable Vortices as Maximum or Minimum Energy Flows....Pages 71-86
Nonlinear Outflows on a β Plane....Pages 87-90
Generation of Internal Gravity Waves by Unstable Overflows....Pages 91-102
On the Effect of Heat and Fresh Water Fluxes Across the Ocean Surface, in Volume-Conserving and Mass-Conserving Models....Pages 103-126
Baroclinic Waves in Climates of the Earth’s Past....Pages 127-139
Mean and Eddy Dynamics of the Main Thermocline....Pages 141-171
An Overview of the Physical Oceanography of the Gulf of California....Pages 173-204
The Atmosphere Over the Gulf of California....Pages 205-212
Residual Flow and Mixing in the Large Islands Region of the Central Gulf of California....Pages 213-236
A Description of Geostrophic Gyres in the Southern Gulf of California....Pages 237-255
Nonlinear Internal Waves Near Mexico’s Central Pacific Coast....Pages 257-274
Canek: Measuring Transport in the Yucatan Channel....Pages 275-286
Diagnostic Force Balance and its Limits....Pages 287-303
A Note on the Effects of Solid Boundaries on Confined Decaying 2D Turbulence....Pages 305-324
Effects of Rotation on Convective Instability....Pages 325-337
Advection by Interacting Vortices on A β Plane....Pages 339-353
A Low-Dimensional Dynamical System for Tripole Formation....Pages 355-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-376