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| Gula, Jonathan; Blacic, Tanya M.; Todd, Robert E.. |
| Seismic images and glider sections of the Gulf Stream front along the U.S. eastern seaboard capture deep, lens‐shaped submesoscale features. These features have radii of 5–20 km, thicknesses of 150–300 m, and are located at depths greater than 500 m. These are typical signatures of anticyclonic submesoscale coherent vortices. A submesoscale‐resolving realistic simulation, which reproduces submesoscale coherent vortices with the same characteristics, is used to analyze their generation mechanism. Submesoscale coherent vortices are primarily generated where the Gulf Stream meets the Charleston Bump, a deep topographic feature, due to the frictional effects and intense mixing in the wake of the topography. These submesoscale coherent vortices can transport... |
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Palavras-chave: Submesoscale coherent vortices; Glider; Seismic observations; Gulf Stream; Topographic interactions; Charleston Bump. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00484/59597/62599.pdf |
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| Meunier, Thomas; Tenreiro, M.; Pallas-sanz, Enric; Ochoa, Jose; Ruiz-angulo, Angel; Portela, Esther; Cusi, Simo; Damien, Pierre; Carton, Xavier. |
| High‐resolution hydrographic measurements reveal the presence of three Intra‐Thermocline Eddies (ITEs) embedded within a Loop Current Eddy (LCE). ITEs are lenticular bodies of nearly homogeneous water which contrasts with the well stratified surrounding water. Their radii and thickness ranged between [19‐32] km and [150‐250] m. Negative relative vorticity within their cores (down to ‐0.85 times the Coriolis frequency), along with a large negative stratification anomaly, result in low Ertel Potential Vorticity (PV) and intense negative Ertel Potential Vorticity Anomalies (PVA). Vortex stretching and relative vorticity have comparable contributions to PVA, resulting in Burger numbers of order unity. The similarity of thermohaline properties within the ITE's... |
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Palavras-chave: Intrathermocline eddies; Submesoscale coherent vortices; Vortex lenses; Loop current eddy; Gulf of Mexico; Submesoscale. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00440/55122/56578.pdf |
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