Abstract
The stability of three-dimensional thermally driven ocean flows in a single
hemispheric sector basin is investigated using techniques of numerical bifur-
cation theory.Under restoring conditions for the temperature,the flow is
stable.However,when forced with the associated heat flux,an interdecadal
oscillatory time scale instability appears.This occurs as a Hopf bifurcation
when the horizontal mixing coeffcient of heat
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