Relative dispersion and kinematic properties of the coastal submesoscale circulation in the southeastern Ligurian Sea

Poulain, Pierre-Marie; Centurioni, Luca; Brandini, Carlo; Taddei, Stefano; Berta, Maristella; Menna, Milena

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1617-2023

Articles | Volume 19, issue 6

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Oceanography at coastal scales: modelling, coupling, observations,...

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1617-2023

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24 Nov 2023

Research article |

| 24 Nov 2023

Relative dispersion and kinematic properties of the coastal submesoscale circulation in the southeastern Ligurian Sea

Pierre-Marie Poulain, Luca Centurioni, Carlo Brandini, Stefano Taddei, Maristella Berta, and Milena Menna

Data sets

CARTHE drifters deployment within the DDR20 - ''Drifter demonstration and Research 2020'' experiment in the NW Mediterranean Sea M. Berta, P.-M. Poulain, R. Sciascia, A. Griffa, and M. Magaldi https://doi.org/10.17882/85161

Short summary

Drifters and a profiling float were deployed in the coastal waters of the southeastern Ligurian Sea to characterize the near-surface circulation at a scale of ~10 km. The drifters were trapped in an offshore-flowing filament and a cyclonic eddy that developed at the southwestern extremity of the filament. Drifter velocities are used to estimate differential kinematic properties and relative dispersion statistics of the surface currents.