Breaking of Internal Waves and Turbulent Dissipation in an Anticyclonic Mode Water Eddy

• Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
• Main Authors: Fernández-Castro, B., Ebans, D. Gwyn, Frajka-Williams, Eleanor, Vic, C., Naveira-Garabato, Alberto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2020
• Subjects: Eddies; Internal waves; Mesoscale processes; Turbulence; Cierva; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/217297; https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0168.1

22 pages, 13 figures.-- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license A 4-month glider mission was analyzed to assess turbulent dissipation in an anticyclonic eddy at the western boundary of the subtropical North Atlantic. The eddy (radius ≈ 60 km) had a core of low poten...