... Mathematics and Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,University of California, Irvine, CA and Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, ... (regularity) of strong solutions to the three-dimensional viscous primitive equations, whichmodel large scale ocean and atmosphere dynamics.1. Introduction Large scale dynamics of oceans and atmosphere ... t)dξ∂T2∂z=0,Annals of Mathematics Global well-posedness of the three-dimensional viscous primitive equations of large scale ocean and atmosphere dynamics By Chongsheng Cao and Edriss S....