Fig. 1: Model grids, snapshots of normalized vorticity and super-inertial energy dissipation. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 1: Model grids, snapshots of normalized vorticity and super-inertial energy dissipation.

From: Oceanic eddies induce a rapid formation of an internal wave continuum

Fig. 1: Model grids, snapshots of normalized vorticity and super-inertial energy dissipation.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a The simulations with 2 km and 500 m resolution are carried out in the colored region and the region in the white box, respectively. The analyses for the 2 km and 500 m simulations are performed in the white dotted box. Colors indicate ocean depth. A snapshot (1 day after the storm) of normalized vorticity at 33 m depth in the (b) eddy-wave and (c) wave-only cases with 500 m resolution, respectively. Note the different colorbar ranges. The mesoscale cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies are indicated by red and blue circular patterns, respectively, in (b). A snapshot (8 days after the storm) of super-inertial energy dissipation (log scale) at 355 m depth in the (d) eddy-only, (e) eddy-wave, and (f) wave-only cases with 500 m resolution, respectively. Gray colors in (d–f) indicate weak negative dissipation values that result from under-sampling of parameterized viscosity values (See Methods and Supplementary Note 7).

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