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| Fan, Xue; Send, Uwe; Testor, Pierre; Karstensen, Johannes; Lherminier, Pascale. |
| Mesoscale anticyclonic eddies in the Irminger Sea are observed using a mooring and a glider. Between 2002 and 2009, the mooring observed 53 anticyclones. Using a kinematic model, objective estimates of eddy length scales and velocity structure are made for 16 eddies. Anticyclones had a mean core diameter of 12 km, and their mean peak observed azimuthal speed was 0.1 m s(-1). They had core salinities and potential temperatures of 34.91-34.98 and 4.488-5.34 degrees C, respectively, making them warm and salty features. These properties represent a typical salinity anomaly of 0.03 and a temperature anomaly of 0.28 degrees C from noneddy values. All eddies had small (<< 1) Rossby numbers. In 2006, the glider observed two anticyclones having diameters of... |
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Palavras-chave: North Atlantic Ocean; Eddies; Mesoscale processes. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00137/24832/22921.pdf |
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