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Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1047-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1047-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
Research article
 | 
19 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 19 Jun 2025

Sensitivity study of energy transfer between mesoscale eddies and wind-induced near-inertial oscillations

Yu Zhang, Jintao Gu, Shengli Chen, Jianyu Hu, Jinyu Sheng, and Jiuxing Xing

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Current observations at two moorings in the northern South China Sea reveal that mesoscale eddies can transfer energy with near-inertial oscillations (NIOs). Numerical experiments are conducted to investigate important parameters affecting energy transfer between mesoscale eddies and NIOs, which demonstrate that the energy transferred by mesoscale eddies is larger with stronger winds and higher strength of the mesoscale eddy. Anticyclonic eddies can transfer more energy than cyclonic eddies.
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