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| Klymak, Jody M.; Shearman, R. Kipp; Gula, Jonathan; Lee, Craig M.; D'Asaro, Eric A.; Thomas, Leif N.; Harcourt, Ramsey R.; Shcherbina, Andrey Y.; Sundermeyer, Miles A.; Molemaker, Jeroen; Mcwilliams, James C.. |
| The Gulf Stream is a major conduit of warm surface water from the tropics to the subpolar North Atlantic. Here we observe and simulate a submesoscale (<20km) mechanism by which the Gulf Stream exchanges water with subpolar water to the north. Along isopycnals, the front has a sharp compensated temperature-salinity contrast, with distinct mixed water between the two water masses 2 and 4km wide. This mixed water does not increase downstream despite substantial energy available for mixing. A series of streamers detrain this water at the crest of meanders. Subpolar water replaces the mixed water and resharpens the front. The water mass exchange accounts for a northward flux of salt of 0.5-2.5 psum(2)s(-1), (large-scale diffusivity O (100m(2)s(-1))). This is... |
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Palavras-chave: Ocean mixing; Gulf Stream; Submesoscale mixing; Eddies. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00600/71201/69570.pdf |
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| Rascle, Nicolas; Molemaker, Jeroen; Marie, Louis; Nouguier, Frederic; Chapron, Bertrand; Lund, Bjorn; Mouche, Alexis. |
| Fine scale current gradients at the ocean surface can be observed by sea surface roughness. More specifically, directional surface roughness anomalies are related to the different horizontal current gradient components. This paper reports results from a dedicated experiment during the LASER (LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment) drifter deployment. A very sharp front, 50 m wide, is detected simultaneously in drifter trajectories, sea surface temperature and sea surface roughness. A new observational method is applied, using sun glitter reflections during multiple airplane passes to reconstruct the multi-angle roughness anomaly. This multi-angle anomaly is consistent with wave-current interactions over a front, including both cross-front convergence and... |
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Palavras-chave: Sea surface roughness; Surface current; Remote sensing; Sun glitter; High resolution; Oceanic fronts. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00386/49767/50301.pdf |
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| Laxague, Nathan J. M.; Ozgokmen, Tamay M.; Haus, Brian K.; Novelli, Guillaume; Shcherbina, Andrey; Sutherland, Peter; Guigand, Cedric M.; Lund, Bjorn; Mehta, Sanchit; Alday, Matias; Molemaker, Jeroen. |
| Plastics and spilled oil pose a critical threat to marine life and human health. As a result of wind forcing and wave motions, theoretical and laboratory studies predict very strong velocity variation with depth over the upper few centimeters of the water column, an observational blind spot in the real ocean. Here we present the first-ever ocean measurements of the current vector profile defined to within 1 cm of the free surface. In our illustrative example, the current magnitude averaged over the upper 1 cm of the ocean is shown to be nearly four times the average over the upper 10 m, even for mild forcing. Our findings indicate that this shear will rapidly separate pieces of marine debris which vary in size or buoyancy, making consideration of these... |
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Palavras-chave: Ocean current shear; Near-surface currents; Marine plastics; Spilled oil; Lagrangian transport. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00425/53614/54443.pdf |
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| Ardhuin, Fabrice; Gille, Sarah T.; Menemenlis, Dimitris; Rocha, Cesar B.; Rascle, Nicolas; Chapron, Bertrand; Gula, Jonathan; Molemaker, Jeroen. |
| Tidal currents and large-scale oceanic currents are known to modify ocean wave properties, causing extreme sea states that are a hazard to navigation. Recent advances in the understanding and modeling capability of open ocean currents have revealed the ubiquitous presence of eddies, fronts and filaments at scales 10 to 100∼km. Based on realistic numerical models, we show that these structures can be the main source of variability in significant wave heights at scales less than 200 km, including important variations down to 10 km. Model results are consistent with wave height variations along satellite altimeter tracks, resolved at scales larger than 50 km. The spectrum of significant wave heights is found to be of the order of 70〈Hs〉2/(g2〈Tm0,-1〉2) times... |
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| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00382/49328/49708.pdf |
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| Rascle, Nicolas; Chapron, Bertrand; Molemaker, Jeroen; Nouguier, Frederic; Ocampo‐torres, Francisco J.; Osuna Cañedo, J. Pedro; Marié, Louis; Lund, Björn; Horstmann, Jochen. |
| Sea surface roughness is affected by surface current gradients, which provides a means of monitoring from satellite sharp oceanic fronts. This paper is the second report of an experiment designed to compare observations of sea surface roughness and surface currents at an unprecedented accuracy, owing to the conjunction of numerous deployed drifters and roughness instruments. About 200 drifters sampled a thin 10~km elongated submesoscale front, also monitored by a high density of roughness instruments: satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar, satellite and airborne multi‐angle sunglint radiometers. The first paper focused on the retrieval of the current gradient direction (convergence and cyclonic vorticity) at the front, using roughness observations at multiple... |
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Palavras-chave: Sea surface roughness; Submesoscale current; Fine-scale current; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Sunglint Sun glitter; Ocean front. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00636/74788/75035.pdf |
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| Yurovskaya, Maria; Rascle, Nicolas; Kudryavtsev, Vladimir; Chapron, Bertrand; Marie, Louis; Molemaker, Jeroen. |
| Reconstruction and evolution of two-dimensional spectra of surface waves in the Gulf of Mexico are derived from airborne sun-glitter imagery. As the proposed method is based on a linear transfer function deduced from the shape of the sunglitter brightness, the absolute wavenumber elevation spectrum does not require any additional assumption or information about sky brightness, wind or wave energy. The detailed description of the airborne image processing method is given. As demonstrated, retrieved spectra agree well with nearby NDBC buoy data, both for spectrum shape, level and energy angular distribution. The 180-degree wave direction ambiguity, inherent to image-derived spectra, is eliminated by using cross-correlation analysis between two consecutive... |
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Palavras-chave: Sunglitter; Sea surface waves; Directional wave spectrum; Aerial photography; Field measurements; Remote sensing observations; High resolution; Drone. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00465/57712/60174.pdf |
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