Divergent pathways of cyclonic and anti-cyclonic ocean eddies

Details Divergent pathways of cyclonic and anti-cyclonic ocean eddies Divergent pathways of cyclonic and anti-cyclonic ocean eddies

Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3124311m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 24, CiteID L24311

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Oceanography: Physical: Eddies And Mesoscale Processes, Oceanography: Physical: Eastern Boundary Currents, Oceanography: General: Remote Sensing And Electromagnetic Processes (0689)

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Satellite altimetry is used to study the propagation pathways of warm and cold ocean eddies in different ocean basins. We consider eddies that have a life span longer than 3 months, and we present three regional studies: in the southeast Indian, the southeast Atlantic, and the northeast Pacific Oceans. The case studies show that simple theories for vortex propagation on a β-plane work in regions where energetic eddies propagate though a weak background flow. Under these conditions, anticyclonic/cyclonic eddies propagate westward and equatorward/poleward. This divergence in the eddy pathways implies a net equatorward eddy heat flux, and has implications for the meridional transport of freshwater, carbon, nutrients, etc.

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