Assessments on the fate of the Agulhas Rings and their transport in the South Atlantic estimated by combining satellite altimetry and in situ observations

• Main Author: Laxenaire, Rémi
• Other Authors: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), Université Paris Saclay (COmUE), Sabrina Speich, Alexandre Stegner
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Ocean mesoscale dynamics; Eddy characteristics; Heat Transport; Dynamique océanique à mésoéchelle; Caractéristiques tourbillonnaires; Transport de chaleur; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Indian; Tourbillons; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://theses.hal.science/tel-02293794; https://theses.hal.science/tel-02293794v2/document; https://theses.hal.science/tel-02293794v2/file/76741_LAXENAIRE_2019_archivage.pdf

The Indo-Atlantic interocean heat exchanges are tightly linked to global ocean circulation and climate. They are principally achieved by the Agulhas Rings (AR) which are investigated in this thesis by means of 24 years of daily satellite-altimetry maps and Argo floats profiles.By applying the TOEddi...