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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-269-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-269-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Technical note
 | 
20 Mar 2015
Technical note |  | 20 Mar 2015

Technical Note: Watershed strategy for oceanic mesoscale eddy splitting

Q. Y. Li and L. Sun

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This study established a splitting strategy that could separate multinuclear eddies into mononuclear eddies. As the values of eddy parameters (e.g. SLA, geostrophic potential vorticity, Okubo–Weiss parameter) are similar to basins in a map, the natural divisions of the basins are the watersheds between them. It can also be applied to automatic identification of troughs and ridges from weather charts. We denoted it the Universal Splitting Technology for Circulations (USTC) method.
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