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PT J
TI The North Atlantic Eddy Heat Transport and Its Relation with the Vertical Tilting of the Gulf Stream Axis
BT 
AF TREGUIER, Anne-Marie
   LIQUE, Camille
   DESHAYES, Julie
   MOLINES, J. M.
AS 1:1;2:4;3:2;4:3;
FF 1:;2:PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH;3:;4:;
C1 CNRS IFREMER IRD UBO, IUEM, Lab Oceanog Phys & Spatiale, Plouzane, France.
   Sorbonne Univ UPMC, CNRS, IRD, MNHN,LOCEAN Lab, Paris, France.
   Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Lab Glaciol & Geophys Environm, Grenoble, France.
C2 CNRS, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH
UM LOPS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
IF 3.086
TC 12
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00391/50247/50871.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB Correlations between temperature and velocity fluctuations are a significant contribution to the North Atlantic meridional heat transport, especially at the northern boundary of the subtropical gyre. In satellite observations and in a numerical model at 1/12 degrees resolution, a localized pattern of positive eddy heat flux is found northwest of the Gulf Stream, downstream of its separation at Cape Hatteras. It is confined to the upper 500 m. A simple kinematic model of a meandering jet can explain the surface eddy flux, taking into account a spatial shift between the maximum velocity of the jet and the maximum cross-jet temperature gradient. In the Gulf Stream such a spatial shift results from the nonlinear temperature profile and the vertical tilting of the velocity profile with depth. The numerical model suggests that the meandering of the Gulf Stream could account, at least in part, for the large eddy heat transport (of order 0.3 PW) near 36 degrees N in the North Atlantic and for its compensation by the mean flow. 
PY 2017
PD JUL
SO Journal Of Physical Oceanography
SN 0022-3670
PU Amer Meteorological Soc
VL 47
IS 6
UT 000403208900004
BP 1281
EP 1289
DI 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0172.1
ID 50247
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