Seasonality in submesoscale turbulence

Although the strongest ocean surface currents occur at horizontal scales of order 100 km, recent numerical simulations suggest that flows smaller than these mesoscale eddies can achieve important vertical transports in the upper ocean. These submesoscale flows, 1-100 km in horizontal extent, take he...

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Main Authors: Ferrari, Raffaele (Contributor), Klymak, Jody M. (Author), Gula, Jonathan (Author), Callies, Joern (Contributor)
Other Authors: Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2015-06-03T16:04:09Z.
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