Abstract: Data from the altimeter onboard the European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERSI) was used to Study the circulation of the Alboran Sea between 35° and 38°N, 0° and 6°W. This region is dominated by two anticyclonic gyres that ...

Abstract: A procedure is presented to detect eddy cores from sea level anomaly (SLA) maps obtained from altimetric measurements. The method is based on finding the sign of Q, which is an invariant of the velocity gradient tensor ...

Abstract: The presence of coherent vortices makes observed mesoscale fields of the ocean resemble two-dimensional turbulence. Using this analogy, a common definition of a coherent structure has been used to study the statistical ...

Abstract: Velocity probability density functions (PDFs) are a key tool to study complex flows and are of great importance to model particle dispersion. The PDFs of geostrophic velocities derived from sea level anomalies maps for the ...