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Sommer, Anna; Reverdin, Gilles; Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas; Boutin, Jacqueline. |
Variability at large to meso-scale in sea surface salinity (SSS) and sea surface temperature (SST) is investigated in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean during the Subtropical Atlantic Surface Salinity Experiment Strasse/SPURS in August 2012—August 2013. The products of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission corrected from large scale systematic errors are tested and used to retrieve meso-scale salinity features, while OSTIA products, resolving meso-scale temperature features are used for SST. The comparison of corrected SMOS SSS data with drifter's in situ measurements from SPURS experiment shows a reasonable agreement, especially during winter time with RMS differences on the order of 0.15 pss (for 10 days, 75 km resolution SMOS product).... |
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Palavras-chave: Salinity; Temperature; Budget; Meso-scale; Advection; SMOS; SPURS. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00468/57933/60319.pdf |
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Tartinville, B; Deleersnijder, E; Lazure, Pascal; Proctor, R; Ruddick, Kg; Uittenbogaard, Re. |
Several coastal ocean models have been used to compute the circulation on the Northwest European Continental Shelf. Five of them, developed within the European Union, are compared in the scope of an idealised three-dimensional test case, dealing with the geostrophic adjustment of a freshwater cylinder. As the central eddy adjusts, unstable baroclinic vortices start to grow. All the models are able to produce such unstable vortices. However, two of them produce an order-two instability, which is in accordance with a previous laboratory experiment, while the others exhibit an order-four instability. Using a simple scaling analysis, it is seen that the azimuthal wavenumber depends on the ratio of the kinetic energy to the available potential energy. It... |
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Palavras-chave: Model intercomparison; Advection; Baroclinic instability; Geostrophic balance. |
Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00448/55938/57485.pdf |
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