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