Figure 5
From: Dissipation of mesoscale eddies at a western boundary via a direct energy cascade
Mesoscale eddy geostrophic velocity at the RAPID/MOCHA mooring WB4. (a) Meridional geostrophic velocity calculated using the composite density (\(\rho \)) sections from the RAPID/MOCHA mooring WB4 for anticyclonic eddies. White contours show density anomaly ((\(\rho ^{\prime }\)) units kg m\(^{-3}\)). (b) As in (a) but for cyclonic eddies. (c) A comparison between geostrophic velocity at the RAPID/MOCHA mooring WB4 (dashed lines) and the velocity profiles estimated from surface geostrophic velocity derived from altimetry data, assuming sub-surface first mode baroclinic structure (solid lines) for anticyclonic (orange) and cyclonic (blue) eddies. The shading indicates an uncertainty range for the mooring-based estimate using Monte-Carlo based bootstrapping to calculate upper and lower bounds for density.
