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| Qiu, Bo; Chen, Shuiming; Klein, Patrice; Torres, Hector; Wang, Jinbo; Fu, Lee-lueng; Menemenlis, Dimitris. |
| Reconstructability of upper ocean vertical velocity (w) and vorticity (ζ) fields from high-resolution sea surface height (SSH) data is explored using the global 1/48° horizontal-resolution MITgcm output in the context of the forth-coming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. By decomposing w with an omega equation of the primitive-equation system and by taking into account the measurement design of the SWOT mission, this study seeks to reconstruct the subinertial, balanced w and ζ signals. By adopting the effective surface quasi-geostrophic (eSQG) framework and applying to the Kuroshio Extension region of the North Pacific, we find that the target and reconstructed fields have a spatial correlation of ~0.7 below the mixed layer for w and 0.7 ~... |
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Palavras-chave: Eddies; Mesoscale processes; Ocean dynamics; Vertical motion; Altimetry. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00593/70561/68744.pdf |
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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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| Qiu, Bo; Chen, Shuiming; Klein, Patrice; Wang, Jinbo; Torres, Hector; Fu, Lee-lueng; Menemenlis, Dimitris. |
| The transition scale Lt from balanced geostrophic motions to unbalanced wave motions, including near-inertial flows, internal tides and inertia-gravity wave continuum, is explored using the output from a global 1/48° horizontal resolution MITgcm simulation. Defined as the wavelength with equal balanced and unbalanced motion kinetic energy (KE) spectral density, Lt is detected to be geographically highly inhomogeneous: it falls below 40 km in the western boundary current and Antarctic Circumpolar Current regions, increases to 40- 100 km in the interior subtropical and subpolar gyres, and exceeds, in general, 200 km in the tropical oceans. With the exception of the Pacific and Indian sectors of the Southern Ocean, the seasonal KE uctuations of the surface... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00423/53431/54318.pdf |
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| Su, Zhan; Torres, Hector; Klein, Patrice; Thompson, Andrew F; Siegelman, Lia; Wang, Jinbo; Menemenlis, Dimitris; Hill, Christopher. |
| he rate of ocean heat uptake depends on the mechanisms that transport heat between the surface and the ocean interior. A recent study found that the vertical heat transport driven by motions with scales smaller than 50 km (submesoscales) and frequencies smaller than one day‐1 is upward. This transport competes with the other major components of the global heat transport, namely the downward heat transport explained by the large‐scale wind‐driven vertical circulation and vertical diffusion at small scales, and the upward heat transport associated with mesoscale eddies (50‐300 km size). The contribution from motions with small spatial scales (< 50 km) and frequencies larger than one day‐1, including internal gravity waves, has never been explicitly... |
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Palavras-chave: Ocean heat transport<; /AUTHOR_KEYWORD>; High frequency<; /AUTHOR_KEYWORD>; Ocean front<; /AUTHOR_KEYWORD>; Eddies<; /AUTHOR_KEYWORD>; Eddy transport<; /AUTHOR_KEYWORD>. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00643/75508/76354.pdf |
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