A Persistent Deep Anticyclonic Vortex in the Rockall Trough Sustained by Anticyclonic Vortices Shed From the Slope Current and Wintertime Convection

Smilenova, Angelina; Gula, Jonathan; Le Corre, Mathieu; Houpert, Loïc; Reecht, Yves

doi:10.1029/2019JC015905

A Persistent Deep Anticyclonic Vortex in the Rockall Trough Sustained by Anticyclonic Vortices Shed From the Slope Current and Wintertime Convection

Type

Article

Date

2020-10

Author(s)

Smilenova Angelina ^1,2, Gula Jonathan ³, Le Corre Mathieu ³, Houpert Loïc ⁴, Reecht Yves ⁵

Affiliation(s)

Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) University Road Galway ,Ireland
Oceanographic Services, Marine Institute Galway ,Ireland
University of Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM Brest, France
National Oceanography Centre (NOC) Southampton, UK
Institute of Marine Research Bergen, Norway

Source

Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans (2169-9275) (American Geophysical Union (AGU)), 2020-10, Vol. 125, N. 10, P. e2019JC015905 (27p.)

DOI

10.1029/2019JC015905

Archimer ID

76734

WOS© Times Cited

11

Language(s)

English

Publisher

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Keyword(s)

mesoscale eddy, eddy merger, instability, potential vorticity transformations, topographic effects, water masses mixing, Rockall Trough

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Smilenova Angelina, Gula Jonathan, Le Corre Mathieu, Houpert Loïc, Reecht Yves (2020). A Persistent Deep Anticyclonic Vortex in the Rockall Trough Sustained by Anticyclonic Vortices Shed From the Slope Current and Wintertime Convection. Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans. 125 (10). e2019JC015905 (27p.). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015905, https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00655/76734/

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