The dissipation of kinetic energy in the Lofoten Basin Eddy

• Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
• Main Authors: Fer, Ilker, Bosse, Anthony, Ferron, Bruno, Bouruet-Aubertot, Pascale
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2018
• Subjects: North Atlantic Ocean; Eddies; Internal waves; Mixing; Turbulence; VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Oseanografi: 452; VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452; Lofoten; Lofoten Basin; Norwegian Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/19342; https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-17-0244.1

Ocean microstructure, current, and hydrography observations from June 2016 are used to characterize the turbulence structure of the Lofoten Basin eddy (LBE), a long-lived anticyclone in the Norwegian Sea. The LBE had an azimuthal peak velocity of 0.8 m s−1 at 950-m depth and 22-km radial distance fr...