Ocean‐Scale Interactions From Space

Satellite observations of the last two decades have led to a major breakthrough emphasizing the existence of a strongly energetic mesoscale turbulent eddy field in all the oceans. This ocean mesoscale turbulence is characterized by cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies (with a 100‐ to 300‐km size and dep...

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Main Authors: Patrice Klein, Guillaume Lapeyre, Lia Siegelman, Bo Qiu, Lee‐Lueng Fu, Hector Torres, Zhan Su, Dimitris Menemenlis, Sylvie Le Gentil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2019-05-01
Series:Earth and Space Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EA000492