Abstract: he relationship between two commonly used diagnostics of stirring in ocean and atmospheric flows, the finite-time Lyapunov exponents ? and relative dispersion R2, is examined for a simple uniform strain flow and ocean flow ...

Abstract: ttempts to monitor ocean eddy heat transport are strongly limited by the sparseness of available observations and the fact that heat transport is a quadratic, sign-indefinite quantity that is particularly sensitive to ...

Abstract: everal recent studies diagnose lateral stirring and mixing in the upper ocean using altimetry-derived velocity fields to advect ?virtual? particles and fields offline. However, the limited spatiotemporal resolution of ...