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

• Main Authors: Corre, Mathieu, Gula, Jonathan, Tréguier, Anne-Marie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Curl; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-114; https://www.ocean-sci-discuss.net/os-2019-114/

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