Figure 3
From: Oceanic vortex mergers are not isolated but influenced by the β-effect and surrounding eddies
Comparison between the mean distance of merging in the HYCOM dataset, and the maximal initial distance between eddies for which they merge in the idealized simulations. (A) Mean distance of merging dm for CEs in the HYCOM dataset, depending on Ro and Bu. The numbers of values used to compute averages are indicated for each range of Ro and Bu. (B) Same as (A) for AEs in the HYCOM dataset. (C) Maximum distance of merging \({d}_{m}^{i}\) observed in numerical simulations of CEs with α = 2 and H = 1000 m on the f-plane (the results are shown by the circle colors). The color background is the same as in (A) to allow a comparison between numerical simulations and the HYCOM dataset analysis. (D) Same as (C) for AEs on the f-plane. (E) Same as (C) for CEs on the β-plane. (F) Same as (C) for AEs on the β-plane. (G) Same as (C) for CEs on the β-disk. (H) Same as (C) for AEs on the β-disk.
