POLYMODE News No. 61

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THEORETICAL ISSUE: Holloway: Mechanism and statistical mechanism in ocean circulation; McWilliams, Flierl: On the evolution of isolated, nonlinear vortices, with application to Gulf Stream rings; Robinson, Haidvogel: The influence of boundary data on the quality of a barotropic regional forecast; NOTES from the Editor: Theoretical issue, POLYMODE News funding; POLYMODE OFFICE NOTES: Preliminary scientific report