The impact of mesoscale eddies on the air-sea turbulent heat fluxes in the South Atlantic

• Main Author: Boas, Ana Beatriz de Figueiredo Melo Villas
• Other Authors: Sato, Olga Tiemi
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Biblioteca Digitais de Teses e Dissertações da USP 2014
• Subjects: Air-sea interactions; Atlântico Sul; Fluxos turbulentos de calor pela superfície; Interações oceano-atmosfera; Mesoscale eddies; South Atlantic; Surface turbulent heat fluxes; Vórtices de meso-escala; Alta; Chaigneau; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/21/21135/tde-12022015-140809/

By collocating 10 years (1999-2009) of remotely sensed surface turbulent heat fluxes with satellite altimetry data, we investigate the impact of ocean mesoscale eddies on the latent and sensible heat fluxes in the South Atlantic ocean. Eddies were identified using the method proposed by Chaigneau et...