Eddy formation in the bays of Kamchatka and fluxes to the open ocean

International audience The Eastern Kamchatka Current (EKC) is the western boundary current of the North Pacific subpolar gyre. Southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula lies a large anticyclonic eddy, the Kamchatka Eddy (KE). This eddy is quasi-stationary. More generally, the oceanic region east of the E...

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Published in:Ocean Dynamics
Main Authors: L'Her, Alexandre, Reinert, Markus, Prants, Sergey, Carton, Xavier, Morvan, Mathieu
Other Authors: Laboratoire Géosciences Océan (LGO), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2021
Subjects:
Kamchatka current
Kamchatka eddy
Sea surface height data
2D numerical model
Flow instability
Vortex formation
Lagrangian analysis
[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Kamchatka Peninsula
Pacific
Kamchatka
Online Access:https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03683265
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-021-01449-w

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