FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Divergent pathways of cyclonic and anti-cyclonic ocean eddies
BT 
AF MORROW, R
   BIROL, F
   GRIFFIN, D
   SUDRE, J
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;
C1 Lab Etud Geophys & Oceanog Spatiales, F-31401 Toulouse 9, France.
   Commonwealth Sci & Ind Res Org Marine Res, Hobart, Tas 7001, Australia.
C2 LEGOS, FRANCE
   CSIRO, AUSTRALIA
IF 2.378
TC 189
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00228/33932/32249.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR SURVOSTRAL 2000/2001
   SURVOSTRAL 2001/2002
   SURVOSTRAL 2002/2003
   SURVOSTRAL 2003/2004
   SURVOSTRAL 97
   SURVOSTRAL 98
   SURVOSTRAL 99
BO L'Astrolabe
AB 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.
PY 2004
PD DEC
SO Geophysical Research Letters
SN 0094-8276
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 31
IS L24311
UT 000226133200004
BP 1
EP 5
DI 10.1029/2004GL020974
ID 33932
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