Understanding the Role of Gulf Stream Eddies on Marine Heatwaves in the North Atlantic Ocean using Altimetry ...
Satellite altimetry has been a useful tool for calculating ocean heat content as sea surface height correlates strongly with thermocline depth. Energetic mesoscale ocean eddies contribute to vertical mixing within a water column through the upwelling and downwelling from cyclonic and anticyclonic ci...
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ftdatacite:10.24400/527896/a03-2023.3700 2024-02-04T10:02:36+01:00 Understanding the Role of Gulf Stream Eddies on Marine Heatwaves in the North Atlantic Ocean using Altimetry ... Bulusu, Subrahmanyam Harrison, Susan Trott, Corinne 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.24400/527896/a03-2023.3700 https://ostst.aviso.altimetry.fr/programs/abstracts-details.html?tx_ausyclsseminar_pi2[objAbstracte]=3700&cHash=X unknown CNES Article 2023 Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting ConferencePaper 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a03-2023.3700 2024-01-05T02:56:24Z Satellite altimetry has been a useful tool for calculating ocean heat content as sea surface height correlates strongly with thermocline depth. Energetic mesoscale ocean eddies contribute to vertical mixing within a water column through the upwelling and downwelling from cyclonic and anticyclonic circulation. Yet, properties from the constituent water-mass first entrained during an eddy’s formation are retained due to negligible horizontal mixing with surrounding waters during the energetic phase of their lifecycles. Changes in water properties, such as sea surface temperatures, in the northwest Atlantic Ocean are modulated by energetics of the eddy field across the Gulf Stream (GS). This makes eddies a principal contributor to the transport of heat across the ocean surface as well as vertically in the water column. GS eddies have been detected within the region of 81°W to 52°W and 28°N to 42°N using an eddy tracking algorithm and assimilated altimetry data from the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean ... Conference Object North Atlantic Northwest Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Satellite altimetry has been a useful tool for calculating ocean heat content as sea surface height correlates strongly with thermocline depth. Energetic mesoscale ocean eddies contribute to vertical mixing within a water column through the upwelling and downwelling from cyclonic and anticyclonic circulation. Yet, properties from the constituent water-mass first entrained during an eddy’s formation are retained due to negligible horizontal mixing with surrounding waters during the energetic phase of their lifecycles. Changes in water properties, such as sea surface temperatures, in the northwest Atlantic Ocean are modulated by energetics of the eddy field across the Gulf Stream (GS). This makes eddies a principal contributor to the transport of heat across the ocean surface as well as vertically in the water column. GS eddies have been detected within the region of 81°W to 52°W and 28°N to 42°N using an eddy tracking algorithm and assimilated altimetry data from the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean ... |
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Understanding the Role of Gulf Stream Eddies on Marine Heatwaves in the North Atlantic Ocean using Altimetry ... |
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Understanding the Role of Gulf Stream Eddies on Marine Heatwaves in the North Atlantic Ocean using Altimetry ... |
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Understanding the Role of Gulf Stream Eddies on Marine Heatwaves in the North Atlantic Ocean using Altimetry ... |
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Understanding the Role of Gulf Stream Eddies on Marine Heatwaves in the North Atlantic Ocean using Altimetry ... |
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understanding the role of gulf stream eddies on marine heatwaves in the north atlantic ocean using altimetry ... |
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