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Huang Weigen. 2000. Eddies along front of warm winter current off the north coast of Spain and at Jovellanos Seamount. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, (3):33-43
Eddies along front of warm winter current off the north coast of Spain and at Jovellanos Seamount
Eddies along front of warm winter current off the north coast of Spain and at Jovellanos Seamount
Received:November 04, 1999  Revised:January 10, 2000
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Key words:Eddy  satellite observations  in-situ measurements
中文关键词:  Eddy  satellite observations  in-situ measurements
基金项目:This research was supported by the UK Science and Engineering Research Council under contract GR3/7612.
Author NameAffiliation
Huang Weigen Laboratory of Ocean Dynamic Processes and Satellite Oceanography, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou 310012, China 
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Abstract:
      Two kinds of eddies in the Bay of Biscay were observed in 1990 by the use of satellite imagery and in-situ measurements.Frontal eddies in the warm winter current off the north coast of Spain persist for about 3 months and have a vertical scale of 700 m and diameters of 80 to 150 km.According to our interpretation,these eddies are mainly generated by baroclinic instability of the warm winter current.The anticycolonic eddy at the Jovellanos Seamount is about 200 km in scale and has a lifetime of 7 months.The possible mechanisms for the generation of the eddy are baroclinic instability of the mean current,topographic interaction and atmospheric forcing.
中文摘要:
      Two kinds of eddies in the Bay of Biscay were observed in 1990 by the use of satellite imagery and in-situ measurements.Frontal eddies in the warm winter current off the north coast of Spain persist for about 3 months and have a vertical scale of 700 m and diameters of 80 to 150 km.According to our interpretation,these eddies are mainly generated by baroclinic instability of the warm winter current.The anticycolonic eddy at the Jovellanos Seamount is about 200 km in scale and has a lifetime of 7 months.The possible mechanisms for the generation of the eddy are baroclinic instability of the mean current,topographic interaction and atmospheric forcing.
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