Separating Mesoscale and Submesoscale Flows from Clustered Drifter Trajectories

Drifters deployed in close proximity collectively provide a unique observational data set with which to separate mesoscale and submesoscale flows. In this paper we provide a principled approach for doing so by fitting observed velocities to a local Taylor expansion of the velocity flow field. We dem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sarah Oscroft, Adam M. Sykulski, Jeffrey J. Early
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-12-01
Series:Fluids
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5521/6/1/14