Frontal convergence and vertical velocity measured by drifters in the Alboran Sea

DR Tarry, S Essink, A Pascual, S Ruiz… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Horizontal and vertical motions associated with mesoscale (10–100 km) and submesoscale
(1–10 km) features, such as fronts, meanders, eddies, and filaments, play a critical role in …

[HTML][HTML] On the upper-ocean vertical eddy heat transport in the Kuroshio extension. Part I: Variability and dynamics

P Yang, Z Jing, B Sun, L Wu, B Qiu… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Oceanic eddies play a crucial role in transporting heat from the subsurface to surface ocean.
However, dynamics responsible for the vertical eddy heat transport QT have not been …

Reconstructability of open‐ocean upper‐layer dynamics from surface observations using surface quasigeostrophy (SQG) theory

L Liu, X Yu, H Xue, P Xiu - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although previous studies suggest that the surface quasigeostrophy (SQG) theory is
practically applicable for subsurface reconstruction from sea surface observations, they …

Islands as eddy transformation and generation hotspots: Cabo Verde case study

C Cardoso, RMA Caldeira, P Relvas… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Deep-ocean islands have long been associated with the generation of oceanic eddies in
their wakes. However, their interaction with incoming eddies has seldom been considered …

Mesoscale warm-core eddies drive interannual modulations of swordfish catch in the Kuroshio Extension System

GS Durán Gómez, T Nagai, K Yokawa - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent observational and numerical studies have suggested that the decadal modulation of
the Kuroshio Extension system, driven by mesoscale eddies, profoundly affect the basin …

Nonlinear surface Ekman effects on cyclonic and anticyclonic vortices

LZ Sansón, IM García-Martínez… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The transfer of momentum between the atmosphere and oceanic motions affected by the
Earth's rotation occurs through the thin surface Ekman layer. The exchange depends on the …

Estimating the ocean interior from satellite observations in the Kerguelen area (Southern Ocean): A combined investigation using high-resolution CTD data from …

L Liu, H Xue - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observational surface data are utilized to reconstruct the subsurface density and
geostrophic velocity fields via the “interior+ surface quasigeostrophic”(isQG) method in a …

Mass, nutrients and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) lateral transports off northwest Africa during fall 2002 and spring 2003

N Burgoa, F Machín, Á Marrero-Díaz… - Ocean …, 2020 - os.copernicus.org
The circulation patterns and the impact of the lateral export of nutrients and organic matter
off NW Africa are examined by applying an inverse model to two hydrographic datasets …

Oceanic fronts structure phytoplankton distributions in the central South Indian Ocean

M Guo, P Xiu, X Xing - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the South Indian Ocean (SIO), high surface chlorophyll concentrations are often
observed in mesoscale anticyclonic eddy cores. Yet the role of submesoscale dynamics in …

Diagnosing subsurface vertical velocities from high-resolution sea surface fields

L Liu, H Xue, H Sasaki - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Using the extended “interior+ surface quasigeostrophic” method from the 2019 study by Liu
et al.(hereafter L19), subsurface density and horizontal velocities can be reconstructed from …