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| Ollitrault, Michel; Rannou, Jean Philippe. |
| During the first decade of the twenty-first century, more than 6000 Argo floats have been launched over the World Ocean, gathering temperature and salinity data from the upper 2000 m, at a 10-day or so sampling period. Meanwhile their deep displacements can be used to map the ocean circulation at their drifting depth (mostly around 1000 m). A comprehensive processing of the whole Argo dataset collected prior to 1 January 2010 has been performed to produce a world-wide dataset of deep displacements. This numerical atlas, named ANDRO, after a traditional dance of Brittany meaning a swirl, comprises some 600 000 deep displacements. These displacements, based on Argo or GPS surface locations only, have been fully checked and corrected for possible errors found... |
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Palavras-chave: Lagrangian circulation/transport; Large-scale motions; Ocean circulation. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00138/24901/22994.pdf |
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| Ollitrault, Michel; Colin De Verdiere, Alain. |
| The mean ocean circulation near 1000-m depth is estimated with 100-km resolution from the Argo float displacements collected before 1 January 2010. After a thorough validation, the 400 000 or so displacements found in the 950–1150 dbar layer and with parking times between 4 and 17 days allow the currents to be mapped at intermediate depths with unprecedented details. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the most prominent feature, but western boundary currents (and their recirculations) and alternating zonal jets in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific are also well defined. Eddy kinetic energy (EKE) gives the mesoscale variability (on the order of 10 cm2 s−2 in the interior), which is compared to the surface geostrophic altimetric EKE showing e-folding... |
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Palavras-chave: Circulation; Dynamics; Currents; Dynamics; Large-scale motions; Ocean circulation. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00174/28512/26877.pdf |
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