Figure 1: Observation of oceanic eddies. | Scientific Reports

Figure 1: Observation of oceanic eddies.

From: Observed 3D Structure, Generation, and Dissipation of Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies in the South China Sea

Figure 1

(a) Locations of the S-MEE mooring arrays (red stars). The color shading shows bathymetry with black dashed lines indicating the isobaths of 100, 500, 1000, 2000 and 3000 m, respectively. Yellow and magenta lines denote the trajectories of AE and CE in (b-g), respectively. The dot on the trajectory indicates the generation site of eddy, and the squares indicate eddy’s locations every 15 days after it was generated. Bathymetry data is downloaded from https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/. (b–g) Maps of altimeter SLA (shading, in cm) and surface absolute geostrophic velocities (arrows, those with magnitudes smaller than 0.3 m/s are not shown) during the period of AE and CE (from 8 November 2013 to 22 January 2014). Purple dots indicate the mooring locations. Magenta line roughly denotes axes of the Kuroshio current. Locations of AE and CE are marked by ‘AE’ and ‘CE’, respectively, on the SLA maps. Altimeter data is distributed by AVISO (http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com). Figures are plotted using MATLAB R2013a (http://www.mathworks.com/). The maps in this figure are generated by MATLAB R2013a with M_Map (a mapping package, http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html).

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