Recent advances in observing mesoscale ocean dynamics with satellite altimetry

R Morrow, PY Le Traon - Advances in Space Research, 2012 - Elsevier
The paper provides a review of recent results on mesoscale ocean dynamics derived from
satellite altimetry. Since 1992, we have had an unprecedented 18year high-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] A new sea surface height–based code for oceanic mesoscale eddy tracking

E Mason, A Pascual… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
A New Sea Surface Height–Based Code for Oceanic Mesoscale Eddy Tracking in: Journal of
Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology Volume 31 Issue 5 (2014) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

Procedures for offline grid nesting in regional ocean models

E Mason, J Molemaker, AF Shchepetkin, F Colas… - Ocean modelling, 2010 - Elsevier
One-way offline nesting of a primitive-equation regional ocean numerical model (ROMS) is
investigated, with special attention to the boundary forcing file creation process. The model …

Main eddy vertical structures observed in the four major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems

C Pegliasco, A Chaigneau… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the four major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS), mesoscale eddies are
known to modulate the biological productivity and transport near‐coastal seawater …

[HTML][HTML] Natural variability of surface oceanographic conditions in the offshore Gulf of Mexico

FE Muller-Karger, JP Smith, S Werner, R Chen… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work characterizes patterns of temporal variability in surface waters of the central Gulf of
Mexico. We examine remote-sensing based observations of sea surface temperature (SST) …

Eddy properties in the California current system

J Kurian, F Colas, X Capet… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Eddy detection and tracking algorithms are applied to both satellite altimetry and a high‐
resolution (dx= 5 km) climatological model solution of the US West Coast to study the …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the exposure of the Macaronesia Islands (NE Atlantic) to marine plastic pollution

C Cardoso, RMA Caldeira - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The constant increase of marine plastic pollution poses an unprecedented risk to oceanic
islands, which become increasingly exposed to a hazard of which they have very little …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution and transport of microplastics in the upper 1150 m of the water column at the Eastern North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, Canary Islands, Spain

D Vega-Moreno, B Abaroa-Pérez… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays it is widely known that pollution by microplastics (MP) at the open ocean covers
immense areas. Buoyant plastics tend to accumulate in areas of convergence at the sea …

[HTML][HTML] Searching for hotspots of neustonic microplastics in the Canary Islands

A Campillo, R Almeda, A Vianello, M Gómez… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated the concentration, distribution, and characteristics of neustonic
MPs in the Canary Islands, with a particular focus on the island leeward zones, where a high …

Open ocean dead zones in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean

J Karstensen, B Fiedler, F Schütte, P Brandt… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
Here we present first observations, from instrumentation installed on moorings and a float, of
unexpectedly low (< 2 μmol kg− 1) oxygen environments in the open waters of the tropical …