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Sub Meso scales, Energy Cascades and Energy Dissipation
Jeroen Molemaker,
Xavier Capet,
James McWilliams
IGPP, UCLA
Nested modeling (North East Atlantic)
South-East Pacific
South West Atlantic
Los Angeles-Long Beach
Santa Monica Bay
Canary Islands (dx = 1 km)
Emergence of sub-mesoscales
Vorticity
Eady flow
Boussinesq SQG
Dissipation Efficiency
SQG
Boussinesq
Energy Flux
SQG
Bouss
PE and KE flux
W Degree of unbalance
The role of unbalanced velocities
Spiral Eddy in SM bay