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Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-229-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-229-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
Research article
 | 
07 Mar 2023
Research article |  | 07 Mar 2023

How subsurface and double-core anticyclones intensify the winter mixed-layer deepening in the Mediterranean Sea

Alexandre Barboni, Solange Coadou-Chaventon, Alexandre Stegner, Briac Le Vu, and Franck Dumas

Data sets

2000-2021 In situ profiles colocalized with AMEDA eddy detections from 1/8 AVISO altimetry in the Mediterranean sea Alexandre Barboni, Alexandre Stegner, Briac Le Vu, and Franck Dumas https://doi.org/10.17882/93077

CORA, Coriolis Ocean Dataset for Reanalysis Tanguy Szekely, Jerome Gourrion, Sylvie Pouliquen, and Gilles Reverdin https://doi.org/10.17882/46219

Global Ocean-In-Situ Near-Real-Time Observations Copernicus https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036

Atlas of 3D Eddies in the Mediterranean Sea from 2000 to 2017 Alexandre Stegner and Briac Le Vu https://doi.org/10.14768/2019130201.2

European Seas Gridded L 4 Sea Surface Heights And Derived Variables Nrt M.-I. Pujol https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00142

Model code and software

briaclevu/AMEDA: AMEDA v2.2 (v2.2) Briac Le Vu https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7673442

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Short summary
Mesoscale eddies are ubiquitous turbulent structures in the ocean, influencing the upper mixed layer. The mixed layer is the ocean surface layer mixed through air–sea exchanges. Using Argo profiling floats inside large Mediterranean anticyclones, we investigate the induced winter mixed-layer depth anomalies. Mixed-layer depth was observed to be greatly influenced by the eddy preexisting subsurface structure to which it possibly connects and can also create double-core anticyclones.
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