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Título: Vertical Velocity Dynamics and Mixing in an Anticyclone near the Canary Islands
Autores/as: Estrada-Allis, S. 
Barcelo-Llull, B.
Pallas-Sanz, E.
Rodríguez Santana, Ángel 
Souza, J. M. A. C.
Mason, E.
McWilliams, J. C.
Sangrá Inciarte, Pablo 
Clasificación UNESCO: 251007 Oceanografía física
Palabras clave: Ageostrophic circulations
Eddies
Mesoscale processes
Mixing
Vertical motion, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Proyectos: Flujos de Carbono en Un Sistema de Afloramiento Costero (Cabo Blanco, Nw de África); Modulación A Submesoscala de la Producción, Exportación y Consumo de Carbono 
Publicación seriada: Journal of Physical Oceanography 
Resumen: The complex structure of the vertical velocity field inside an anticyclonic eddy located just south of the Canary Islands is analyzed through a high-resolution ocean model. Based on the flow divergence, vertical velocity is decomposed into various forcing components. The analysis reveals that advection and stretching of vorticity are the most important forcing contributions to the vertical velocity within the eddy. In the mixed layer, a small-scale multipolar vertical velocity pattern dominates. This is the result of vertical mixing effects that enhance the surface vertical velocity by increasing the ageostrophic velocity profile. As a result, an ageostrophic secondary circulation arises that acts to restore thermal-wind balance, inducing strong vertical motions. Nonlinear Ekman pumping/suction patterns resemble the small-scale vertical velocity field, suggesting that nonlinear Ekman effects are important in explaining the complex vertical velocity, despite an overestimate of its magnitude. In the eddy thermocline, the vertical velocity is characterized by a dipolar pattern, which experiences changes in intensity and axisymmetrization with time. The dipolar vertical velocity distribution arises from the imbalance between the advection and stretching of the vorticity forcing terms. A vertical velocity dipole is also obtained by solving a generalized omega equation from density and horizontal velocity fields, which also shows a preponderance of the ageostrophic term. The ubiquity of dipolar vertical velocity distributions inside isolated anticyclones is supported by recent observational findings in the same oceanic region.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/58892
ISSN: 0022-3670
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-17-0156.1
Fuente: Journal Of Physical Oceanography [ISSN 0022-3670], v. 49 (2), p. 431-451
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