Model-inferred upper ocean circulation in the eastern tropics of the North Atlantic.

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: Elmoussaoui, A., Arhan, Michel, Tréguier, Anne-Marie
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00270743; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2005.01.010

International audience The seasonal regime associated with the eastern part of the cyclonic tropical gyre in the North Atlantic is studied using a high-resolution model. The model reproduces a vertical water mass transition (between South and North Atlantic Central Water) previously observed near σ0...