| Type |
Article |
| Date |
2004-08 |
| Language |
English |
| Author(s) |
Klein Patrice, Lapeyre Guillaume, Large Wg |
| Affiliation(s) |
IFREMER, Lab Phys Oceans, Plouzane, France.
NCAR, Climate & Global Dynam Div, Boulder, CO USA. |
| Source |
Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2004-08 , Vol. 31 , N. 15 , P. 1-4 |
| DOI |
10.1029/2004GL020274 |
| WOS© Times Cited |
35 |
| Abstract |
Recent findings have highlighted the impact of high frequency (HF) winds on the inertial motions and the consequences on the large-scale oceanic circulation [Wunsch and Ferrari, 2004]. Within this context the present study focuses on the role of intermediate scales related to oceanic mesoscale eddies. Results show that a turbulent eddy field does not affect the impact of HF winds on the inertial motions. However the eddies efficiently and permanently concentrate the wind-forced inertial motions in small-scale anticyclonic structures. This leads to a spatially heterogeneous vertical mixing strongly related to the eddy field properties. |
| Full Text |
| File |
Pages |
Size |
Access |
| Publisher's official version |
4 |
370 KB |
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