Fig. 4: Surface wind power and baroclinic instability contribute dominantly to the shoreward shifts of mesoscale activity. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Surface wind power and baroclinic instability contribute dominantly to the shoreward shifts of mesoscale activity.

From: Shoreward shift of oceanic mesoscale activity over the last three decades

Fig. 4: Surface wind power and baroclinic instability contribute dominantly to the shoreward shifts of mesoscale activity.

a, c, e Global trends of surface wind power (WP), baroclinic instability (BC), and barotropic instability (BT) from 1993 to 2022 calculated using GLORYS. b, d, f Global-averaged time-series of zonal centroid anomalies (compared to the mean location over the time period) of WP, BC, and BT, respectively [Unit: km per decade].

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