... resulting in the formation of so-called rings or synoptic eddies. These rings, and in particular the warm-core rings which are surface intensified, have long since been identified in the vicinity ... Fluids. 3, 2 644 (1991). 44 , 53, 54 34. Miyazaki, T.: Elliptical instability in a stably stratified rotating fluid. Phys. Fluids 5, 2702(1993). 44 , 45 35. Moore, D.W., Saffman, P.G.: The instability ... of these rings andlead to their splitting into two or three parts [3].3 Oceanic Vortices 69flow exiting in the South Indian Ocean forms Teddies (throughflow eddies) and the Loop Current in the...