Eddy formation in the bays of Kamchatka and fluxes to the open ocean

• Published in: Ocean Dynamics
• Main Authors: L'Her, Alexandre, Reinert, Markus, Prants, Sergey, Carton, Xavier, Morvan, Mathieu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Heidelberg 2021
• Subjects: Kamchatka current; Kamchatka eddy; Sea surface height data; 2D numerical model; Flow instability; Vortex formation; Lagrangian analysis; Kamchatka Peninsula; Pacific; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00816/92795/99457.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-021-01449-w; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00816/92795/

The Eastern Kamchatka Current (EKC) is the western boundary current of the North Pacific subpolar gyre. Southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula lies a large anticyclonic eddy, the Kamchatka Eddy (KE). This eddy is quasi-stationary. More generally, the oceanic region east of the EKC contains many eddies...