Figure 6
From: Dissipation of mesoscale eddies at a western boundary via a direct energy cascade
Mesoscale eddy decay rate. (a) Mean eddy radius of anticyclonic (red) and cyclonic (blue) eddies that dissipate within the MerMEED study region, shown as a function of days before decay. The shading represents an estimate of the uncertainty in the eddy radius calculated using Monte-Carlo based bootstrapping. (b) As in (a) but for eddy amplitude. (c) As in (a) but for eddy kinetic energy. The coloured lines are a linear fit to the eddy kinetic energy curves for the intervals 0–10 days before decay and 10–60 days before decay. The gradient of each coloured line is shown in the legend where the uncertainty range is estimated from the mean difference between the gradient of the upper and lower bounds (represented by the shading) and the central curve.
