Abstract: | This paper reviews the works on vortical patch dynamics, carried out at the Pacific Oceanological Institute, the Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1983 to 1992, as applied to dynamic oceanography modelling. Quasi-geostrophic barotropic and baroclinic models, plane gravitational axisymmetric models, and models considering entrainment effects, are examined.Translated by Vladimir A. Puchkin. UDK 551.465.11. |