Rotation of floating particles in submesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies: a model study for the southeastern Baltic Sea

Zhurbas, Victor; Väli, Germo; Kuzmina, Natalia

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1691-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1691-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1691-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

Research article

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13 Dec 2019

Research article |

| 13 Dec 2019

Rotation of floating particles in submesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies: a model study for the southeastern Baltic Sea

Victor Zhurbas, Germo Väli, and Natalia Kuzmina

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Final revised paper (published on 13 Dec 2019)
Preprint (discussion started on 06 Aug 2019)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of “Rotation of floating particles in submesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies: a model study for the southeastern Baltic Sea ” by Victor Zhurbas et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Sep 2019
- AC1: 'Final author comments: Reviewer#1', Victor Zhurbas, 09 Oct 2019
RC2: 'Referee Comment', Vladimir Ryabchenko, 05 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Final author comments: Reviewer#2', Victor Zhurbas, 11 Oct 2019
RC3: 'Review of os-2019-90', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Sep 2019
- AC3: 'Final author comments: Reviewer#3', Victor Zhurbas, 16 Oct 2019
RC4: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #4, 15 Sep 2019
- AC4: 'Final author comments to Review #4', Victor Zhurbas, 17 Oct 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Victor Zhurbas on behalf of the Authors (24 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Oct 2019) by Eric J.M. Delhez

AR by Victor Zhurbas on behalf of the Authors (30 Oct 2019)

Short summary

Spiral streaks or spirals are a common feature on satellite images of the sea surface. Spirals are overwhelmingly cyclonic: they wind anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. Based on a regional circulation model with very high resolution we concluded that submesoscale cyclonic eddies differ from anticyclonic eddies in three ways favoring the formation of spirals: they can be characterized by (a) higher angular velocity, (b) more pronounced differential rotation and (c) negative helicity.