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Properties of Near-Surface Inertial Oscillations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Inertial oscillations in current records in the top 100 m of the ocean collected on three moorings 50 and 70 km apart are examined. At 12 and 32 m depth the records are horizontally coherent at inertial frequencies and ...
Mesoscale (50–100 km) Circulations Revealed by Inverse and Classical Analysis of the JASIN Hydrographic Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Inverse analysis (Wunsch, 1978) has been applied to two 10-day surveys of an area 15 km consisting of nearly 100 CTD stations, in order to determine the velocity field with a horizontal resolution of 45 km. Reference levels ...
Vorticity and Vertical Circulation at an Ocean Front
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Density and velocity data with 4-km horizontal resolution from a survey of a front during FASINEX (Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment) are combined to describe the structure of the top 300 m of the ocean. The geostrophic ...
Measuring Surface Currents in Drake Passage from Altimetry and Hydrography
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This paper describes a new method for combining altimetry data with hydrography in order to produce absolute surface geostrophic currents from altimetry. This method is then applied to data from the Drake Passage allowing ...