Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-413-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-413-2019
Research article
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15 Apr 2019
Research article |  | 15 Apr 2019

Multicore structures and the splitting and merging of eddies in global oceans from satellite altimeter data

Wei Cui, Wei Wang, Jie Zhang, and Jungang Yang

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Mesoscale eddies are large bodies of swirling water, which generally refer to ocean signals with spatial scales of tens to hundreds of kilometers and temporal scales of days to months. This study identified events of splitting and merging of mesoscale eddies in the global ocean based on sea level height data. Multicore structures represent an intermediate stage in the process of eddy evolution, similar to the generation of multiple nuclei in a cell as a preparatory phase for cell division.