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

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Authors: Corre, Mathieu, Gula, Jonathan, Tréguier, Anne-Marie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-451-2020; https://os.copernicus.org/articles/16/451/2020/

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...