Sub Meso scales, Energy Cascades and Energy Dissipation

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Sub Meso scales, Energy Cascades and Energy
Dissipation

• Jeroen Molemaker,
• Xavier Capet,
• James McWilliams
• IGPP, UCLA

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Nested modeling (North East Atlantic)
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South-East Pacific
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South West Atlantic
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Los Angeles-Long Beach
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Santa Monica Bay
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Canary Islands (dx 1 km)
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Emergence of sub-mesoscales
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Vorticity
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Eady flow
Boussinesq
SQG
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Dissipation Efficiency
Boussinesq
SQG
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Energy Flux
Bouss
SQG
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PE and KE flux
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W
Degree of unbalance
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The role of unbalanced velocities
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Spiral Eddy in SM bay
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