Barotropic vorticity balance of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre in an eddy-resolving model

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Authors: Le Corre, Mathieu, Gula, Jonathan, Tréguier, Anne-marie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus GmbH 2020
• Subjects: Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00629/74062/73537.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00629/74062/73538.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-451-2020; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00629/74062/

The circulation in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre is complex and strongly influenced by the topography. The gyre dynamics are traditionally understood as the result of a topographic Sverdrup balance, which corresponds to a first-order balance between the planetary vorticity advection, the bottom p...