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TI Extended deep equatorial layering as a possible imprint of inertial instability
BT 
AF D'ORGEVILLE, Marc
   HUA, Bach-Lien
   SCHOPP, Richard
   BUNGE, L
AS 1:;2:;3:;4:;
FF 1:PDG-DRO-DOPS-LPO;2:PDG-DRO-DOPS-LPO;3:;4:;
C1 IFREMER, LPO, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   IRD, LODYC, F-75252 Paris 05, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   IRD, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-DRO-DOPS-LPO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
IF 2.378
TC 14
TU Centre national de la recherche scientifique
   Institut de recherche pour le développement
   Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer
   Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
   Université Pierre et Marie Curie
   Université de Bretagne Occidentale
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10892/9229.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR EQUALANT 2000
   EQUALANT 99
   PIRATA-FR06
   PIRATA-FR08
BO Thalassa
   Le Suroît
   L'Atalante
AB The deep equatorial track of the world ocean is subject to intense zonal flow fields that still remain to be better understood. Inertial instability has been invoked to explain some of its features. Here we present possible in situ imprints of such a mechanism in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean below the thermocline. We analyse the observed pattern of homogeneous density layers of 50 - 100 m vertical scale, which are characterized by a large meridional coherency up to 2degrees of latitude, a concentration in the vicinity of the equator and foremost a vertical localization within regions of well-mixed angular momentum ( westward jets). These distinctive properties suggest inertial instability to be a plausible mechanism for this extended layering. Numerical simulations forced by a time-oscillating shear reproduce the observed density layering characteristics. The prescription of deep jets in the background flow controls the vertical localization of the layering inside westward jets.
PY 2004
PD NOV
SO Geophysical Research Letters
SN 0094-8276
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 31
IS L22303
UT 000225399800002
BP 1
EP 5
DI 10.1029/2004GL020845
ID 10892
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