Study of a mesoscale anticyclonic eddy in the western part of the Gulf of Lion

被引：34

作者：

Hu, Z. Y. ^{[1
]}

Petrenko, A. A. ^{[1
]}

Doglioli, A. M. ^{[1
]}

Dekeyser, I. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Mediterranee, Lab Oceanog Phys & Biogeochim, OSU Ctr Oceanol Marseille, CNRS,UMR 6535, F-13288 Marseille 9, France

来源：

JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS | 2011年 / 88卷 / 01期

关键词：

Mesoscale eddies; Gulf of Lion; Northwestern Mediterranean Sea; LATEX project; NW MEDITERRANEAN SEA; BLACK-SEA; CIRCULATION; VARIABILITY; EDDIES; WIND; DYNAMICS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.02.008

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and Expendable Bathy Thermograph (XBT) data were collected during the Latex08 cruise (September 1-5, 2008) throughout the western part of the Gulf of Lion. These data, combined with Sea Surface Temperature (SST) satellite images and Lagrangian drifter trajectories, show the presence of an intense anticyclonic eddy in the western part of the Gulf of Lion. The eddy is elliptic in shape and the estimated radius is 21.5 (15.5) km for its major (minor) axis. The vertical extent of the eddy reached about 35 m depth and was limited by the bottom of the seasonal mixed layer. The eddy interacts with the Northern Current at the end of the cruise, maybe leading to its deformation. Moreover complementary drifter data suggest that this anticyclonic eddy was already present at the beginning of August 2008. Hence the eddy lasted around 50 days in the same region. In light of previous numerical study, some hypotheses about the formation and behavior of the eddy are also discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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