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Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1167-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1167-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
Research article
 | 
05 Oct 2018
Research article |  | 05 Oct 2018

Mean circulation and EKE distribution in the Labrador Sea Water level of the subpolar North Atlantic

Jürgen Fischer, Johannes Karstensen, Marilena Oltmanns, and Sunke Schmidtko

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Data to "Mean circulation and EKE distribution in the Labrador Sea Water level of the subpolar North Atlantic" J. Fischer, J. Karstensen, M. Oltmanns, and S. Schmidtko https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.894949

YoMaHa'07: Velocity data assessed from trajectories of Argo floats at parking level and at the sea surface Konstantin V. Lebedev, Hiroshi Yoshinari, Nikolai A. Maximenko, and Peter W. Hacker http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/yomaha/index.php

Argo float data and metadata from Global Data Assembly Centre (Argo GDAC) Argo https://doi.org/10.17882/42182

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Based on nearly 17 years of profiling (Argo) float data, high-resolution (~ 25 km grid) maps of mean flow and eddy kinetic energy (EKE) were constructed for the intermediate to deep subpolar North Atlantic. Robust boundary currents along topographic slopes, mid-basin advective pathways, and stagnation regimes were identified. The ratio of mean flow vs. the square root of EKE indicates regions dominated by advection, and large regions in which eddy diffusion prevails.
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