Journal article
The annual cycle of upper-ocean potential vorticity and its relationship to submesoscale instabilities
- Abstract:
-
The evolution of upper-ocean potential vorticity (PV) over a full year in a typical midocean area of the northeast Atlantic is examined using submesoscale- and mesoscale-resolving hydrographic and velocity measurements from a mooring array. A PV budget framework is applied to quantitatively document the competing physical processes responsible for deepening and shoaling the mixed layer. The observations reveal a distinct seasonal cycle in upper-ocean PV, characterized by frequent occurrences ...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Meteorological Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Physical Oceanography Journal website
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 385-402
- Publication date:
- 2021-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-13
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1520-0485
- ISSN:
-
0022-3670
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
1145342
- Local pid:
- pubs:1145342
- Deposit date:
- 2020-11-13
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- American Meteorological Society
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 American Meteorological Society. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
Metrics
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record