Figure 1: Distributions of modelled particle positions.
From: No inter-gyre pathway for sea-surface temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic
Floats are initialized from the surface of the VCH box (black rectangle) in FLAME and are constrained to follow either the two-dimensional surface flow field (a) or the three-dimensional flow field (b) for 5 years. The colour bar refers to the total number of trajectories that pass through a given location (that is, occurrences) over the 15 years. Arrows in a are the time-mean Ekman velocities from the Center for Topographic Studies of the Ocean and Hydrosphere28 and contours in b are the time-mean SSH values from AVISO29 (dashed contours indicate negative values).
