FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Evidence of abyssal eddies in the Brazil Basin - art. no. 3027
BT 
AF WEATHERLY, G
   ARHAN, Michel
   MERCIER, Herle
   SMETHIE, W
AS 1:1;2:2;3:4;4:3;
FF 1:;2:PDG-DRO-DOPS-LPO;3:;4:;
C1 Florida State Univ, Dept Oceanog, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA.
   IFREMER, Ctr Brest, UBO,CNRS, Lab Phys Oceans, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, Palisades, NY 10964 USA.
C2 UNIV FLORIDA STATE, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   LAMONT DOHERTY EARTH OBSERV, USA
   CNRS, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-DRO-DOPS-LPO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 2.245
TC 10
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10051/7796.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR CITHER : CIRCULATION THERMOCLINE
DE ;eddies;Deep Western Boundary Current;eddy merging
AB [1] We report evidence of two deep cyclonic and two deep anticyclonic submesoscale eddies from World Oceanographic Circulation Experiment hydrographic casts made in the Brazil Basin. We infer that three of these were likely formed in or near the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC) of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW), and thus had traveled eastward after formation. These eddies appear to be a new way for transporting NADW away from the DWBC to the ocean interior. One of the apparent cyclonic eddies appeared to be laterally in contact with one of the anticyclonic eddies. About 10 days later an attempt was made to resample the apparent eddies that had been in contact. These observations, although limited, are interpreted to indicate that they survived the encounter, that the cyclonic eddy had now moved to be beneath the anticyclonic one with each being somewhat thinner, and that they produced a new anticyclonic eddy by partially merging. Deep float observations [Hogg and Owens, 1999] partially support the second inference.
PY 2002
PD APR
SO Journal Of Geophysical Research Oceans
SN 0148-0227
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 107
IS C4
UT 000178923600006
DI 10.1029/2000JC000648
ID 10051
ER

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