Articles | Volume 18, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-1361-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-1361-2022
Research article
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14 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 14 Sep 2022

Global coarse-grained mesoscale eddy statistics based on integrated kinetic energy and enstrophy correlations

Imre M. Jánosi, Holger Kantz, Jason A. C. Gallas, and Miklós Vincze

Data sets

Data from: A daily global mesoscale ocean eddy dataset from satellite altimetry J. H. Faghmous, I. Frenger, Y. Yao, R. Warmka, A. Lindell, and V. Kumar https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.gp40h

A Daily Global Mesoscale Ocean Eddy Dataset From Satellite Altimetry (v1.1) J. H. Faghmous, M. Uluyol, R. Warmka, H. Ngyuen, Y. Yao, and A. Lindell https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13037

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Short summary
Surface flow fields of the global oceans are dominated by so-called mesoscale (50–300 km) eddies. They usually drift westward at a few kilometers per day, transporting mass, temperature, chlorophyll, and debris. There are several methods to identify and track eddies based on satellite measurements, some of them very computationally demanding. Here we extend a recently proposed simple procedure to the global scale, which gives quick coarse-grained statistics on mesoscale vortex properties.