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Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-941-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-941-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
Research article
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17 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 17 Jul 2019

Single super-vortex as a proxy for ocean surface flow fields

Imre M. Jánosi, Miklós Vincze, Gábor Tóth, and Jason A. C. Gallas

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Mesoscale eddies are ubiquitous swirling flow patterns in the open ocean with diameters of around 100 km. They transport a huge amount of heat and material and are therefore key elements of the “weather” of the ocean. Using satellite-based ocean surface elevation, we found that the combined global effect of all mesoscale eddies can be treated as a single strong “super-vortex”. This finding can be helpful to estimate the energy budget of ocean regions where only sparse field data are available.
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