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contributor authorSchmid, Claudia
contributor authorSchäfer, Hartmut
contributor authorZenk, Walter
contributor authorPodestá, Guillermo
date accessioned2017-06-09T14:51:46Z
date available2017-06-09T14:51:46Z
date copyright1995/11/01
date issued1995
identifier issn0022-3670
identifier otherams-28414.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4165528
description abstractIn late austral summer 1991 a cyclonic thermocline eddy was detected in the subtropical western South Atlantic off the Brazilian shelf near the city of Vitória. This Vitória eddy was tracked for 55 days by surface drifters drogued at 100-m depth. The drifters had been deployed in the western boundary current regime by FS Meteor as part of a basinwide surface current study. The analysis of a combined CTD/XBT section across the Vitória eddy, together with drifter data and satellite images of the thermal surface structure revealed the unexpected complexity of the region. The eddy interacted not only with the local topography and the Brazil Current, located farther offshore, but also with an extended upwelling regime north of Cabo Frio. The hydrographic and kinematic properties and anomalies of the Vitóia eddy are analyzed and compared with similar vortices described elsewhere in literature.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleThe Vitória Eddy and Its Relation to the Brazil Current
typeJournal Paper
journal volume25
journal issue11
journal titleJournal of Physical Oceanography
identifier doi10.1175/1520-0485(1995)025<2532:TVEAIR>2.0.CO;2
journal fristpage2532
journal lastpage2546
treeJournal of Physical Oceanography:;1995:;Volume( 025 ):;issue: 011
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