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Page 1: Sub Meso scales, Energy Cascades and Energy Dissipation Jeroen Molemaker, Xavier Capet, James McWilliams IGPP, UCLA

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

SQG

Boussinesq

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Energy Flux

SQG

Bouss

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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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