| Type |
Article |
| Date |
2004-12 |
| Language |
English |
| Author(s) |
Morrow R1, Birol F1, Griffin D2, Sudre J1 |
| Affiliation(s) |
1 : Lab Etud Geophys & Oceanog Spatiales, F-31401 Toulouse 9, France.
2 : Commonwealth Sci & Ind Res Org Marine Res, Hobart, Tas 7001, Australia. |
| Source |
Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2004-12 , Vol. 31 , N. L24311 , P. 1-5 |
| DOI |
10.1029/2004GL020974 |
| WOS© Times Cited |
189 |
| Abstract |
Satellite altimetry is used to study the propagation pathways of warm and cold ocean eddies in different ocean basins. We consider eddies that have a life span longer than 3 months, and we present three regional studies: in the southeast Indian, the southeast Atlantic, and the northeast Pacific Oceans. The case studies show that simple theories for vortex propagation on a beta-plane work in regions where energetic eddies propagate though a weak background flow. Under these conditions, anticyclonic/cyclonic eddies propagate westward and equatorward/poleward. This divergence in the eddy pathways implies a net equatorward eddy heat flux, and has implications for the meridional transport of freshwater, carbon, nutrients, etc. |
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5 |
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