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Oceanic mass transport by mesoscale eddies
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Spinning up ocean circulation discretely: Ocean eddies with diameters of tens to hundreds of kilometers are an important component of water transport on a global scale. Averaged over periods of many years, ocean circulation is regular and coherent enough to have been described as a conveyor belt. However, over shorter time scales, irregular, discrete events cause significant amounts of water movement—termed mesoscale eddies. Zhang et al. combined data from thousands of autonomous observational devices called ARGO floats with satellite data. The mesoscale eddies moved around as much ocean water as wind or deepwater currents. Science , this issue p. 322
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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhang, Z., Wang, W., & Qiu, B.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2014-07-18
- Volume
- 345
- Issue
- 6194
- Pages
- 322-324
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2055626096
- Cited by
- 632
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 16.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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