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| Klein, Patrice; Lapeyre, Guillaume; Siegelman, Lia; Qiu, Bo; Fu, Lee‐lueng; Torres, Hector; Su, Zhan; Menemenlis, Dimitris; Le Gentil, Sylvie. |
| Satellite observations of the last two decades have led to a major breakthrough emphasizing the existence of a strongly energetic mesoscale turbulent eddy field in all the oceans. This ocean mesoscale turbulence (OMT) is characterized by cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies (with a 100‐‐300 km size and depth scales of ~500‐‐1000 m) that capture approximatively 80% of the total kinetic energy and is now known to significantly impact the large‐scale ocean circulation, the ocean's carbon storage, the air‐sea interactions and therefore the Earth climate as a whole. However, OMT revealed by satellite observations has properties that differ from those related to classical geostrophic turbulence theories. In the last decade, a large number of theoretical and... |
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| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00488/59951/63202.pdf |
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