Submesoscale dynamics in the upper ocean

JR Taylor, AF Thompson - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Oceanic motions with spatial scales of 200 m–20 km, called submesoscales, are ubiquitous
in the upper ocean and serve as a key intermediary between larger-scale balanced …

Global observations of fine-scale ocean surface topography with the surface water and ocean topography (SWOT) mission

R Morrow, LL Fu, F Ardhuin, M Benkiran… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The future international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission, planned for
launch in 2021, will make high-resolution 2D observations of sea-surface height using SAR …

[HTML][HTML] Mixed layer instabilities and restratification

G Boccaletti, R Ferrari… - Journal of Physical …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The restratification of the oceanic surface mixed layer that results from lateral gradients in
the surface density field is studied. The lateral gradients are shown to be unstable to …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal mesoscale and submesoscale eddy variability along the North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrent

B Qiu, S Chen, P Klein, H Sasaki… - Journal of Physical …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Seasonal Mesoscale and Submesoscale Eddy Variability along the North Pacific
Subtropical Countercurrent in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 44 Issue 12 (2014) …

Eddies in the Western Arctic Ocean from spaceborne SAR observations over open ocean and marginal ice zones

IE Kozlov, AV Artamonova… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Western Arctic Ocean is a host to major ocean circulation systems, many of
which generate eddies that can transport water masses and corresponding tracers over long …

Seasonality of the submesoscale dynamics in the Gulf Stream region

JA Mensa, Z Garraffo, A Griffa, TM Özgökmen, A Haza… - Ocean Dynamics, 2013 - Springer
Frontogenesis and frontal instabilities in the mixed layer are known to be important
processes in the formation of submesoscale features. We study the seasonality of such …

Quantifying habitat use and preferences of pelagic seabirds using individual movement data: a review

ED Wakefield, RA Phillips, J Matthiopoulos - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2009 - int-res.com
Colonial seabirds are relatively easy to observe, count, measure and manipulate, and
consequently have long been used as models for testing ecological hypotheses. A …

Seasonality of submesoscale flows in the ocean surface boundary layer

CE Buckingham, AC Naveira Garabato… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A signature of submesoscale flows in the upper ocean is skewness in the distribution of
relative vorticity. Expected to result for high Rossby number flows, such skewness has …

The scale of submesoscale baroclinic instability globally

J Dong, B Fox-Kemper, H Zhang… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
The spatial scale of submesoscales is an important parameter for studies of submesoscale
dynamics and multiscale interactions. The horizontal spatial scales of baroclinic, geostrophic …

Broad impacts of fine-scale dynamics on seascape structure from zooplankton to seabirds

A Bertrand, D Grados, F Colas, S Bertrand… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
In marine ecosystems, like most natural systems, patchiness is the rule. A characteristic of
pelagic ecosystems is that their 'substrate'consists of constantly moving water masses …