Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
The definitive version was published in CalCOFI Reports 56 (2015): 83
Description:
The California Current system (CCS) is characterized
by the energetic summertime mesoscale and filamentary
eddies with typical anomalies in sea surface temperature
(SST) and surface current exceeding 2˚C and 0.5 cms–1,
respectively. Recent satellite observations show that both
SST and surface current at oceanic mesoscales significantly
influence the Ekman pumping velocity, suggestive
of a subsequent dynamical feedback effect on the eddy
energetics. The extent to which this mesoscale coupling is
important for the Ekman pumping and the eddy kinetic
energy (EKE) budget in the CCS is the focus of this study.
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Article
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