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 …

This article is a perspective on the recently discovered realm of submesoscale currents in
the ocean. They are intermediate-scale flow structures in the form of density fronts and …

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 …

Life in the ocean relies on the photosynthetic production of phytoplankton, which is
influenced by the availability of light and nutrients that are modulated by a host of physical …

Although the strongest ocean surface currents occur at horizontal scales of order 100 km,
recent numerical simulations suggest that flows smaller than these mesoscale eddies can …

Until recently, observations of the giant planets of our Solar System were confined to
sampling relatively shallow regions of their atmospheres, leaving many uncertainties as to …

Ocean eddies (with a size of 100–300 km), ubiquitous in satellite observations, are known to
represent about 80% of the total ocean kinetic energy. Recent studies have pointed out the …

Internal gravity waves (IGWs) and balanced motions (BMs) with scales< 100‐km capture
most of the vertical velocity field in the upper ocean. They have, however, different impacts …

Seasonality in Transition Scale from Balanced to Unbalanced Motions in the World Ocean in:
Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 48 Issue 3 (2018) Jump to Content Jump to Main …

The motivation to study the vertical exchanges of tracers associated with mesoscale eddies
is that the mean concentration of most oceanic tracers changes rapidly with depth. Because …