Eddies in the Western Mediterranean seen by spaceborne radar

[en] In the present study we analyze manifestations of submesoand mesoscale eddies in the Western Mediterranean Sea found in Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) imagery of 2010-2011. Location of mesoscale eddies found in the imagery outlined the main stream of the basin. Special attention is being paid to the relation between the numbers of cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies at different spatial scales. It is shown that eddies less than 60 km in diameter are dominantly cyclonic; at some intermediate scales (about 70 km) there is a balance between the numbers of cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies and at largest scales (>100 km) eddies are predominantly anticyclonic.

Disciplines :

Earth sciences & physical geography

Author, co-author :

Karimova, Svetlana ; Université de Liège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research (GHER)

Gade, Martin; University of Hamburg

Language :

English

Title :

Eddies in the Western Mediterranean seen by spaceborne radar

Publication date :

July 2016

Event name :

IGARSS 2016

Event organizer :

IEEE

Event place :

Beijing, China

Event date :

from 10-07-2016 to 15-07-2016

Audience :

International

Main work title :

IGARSS 2016

Publisher :

IEEE

Additional URL :

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7730039/

European Projects :

FP7 - 600405 - BEIPD - Be International Post-Doc - Euregio and Greater Region

Funders :

CE - Commission Européenne

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