Sub Meso scales, Energy Cascades and Energy Dissipation

Jeroen Molemaker,

Xavier Capet,

James McWilliams

IGPP, UCLA

Nested modeling (North East Atlantic)

South-East Pacific

South West Atlantic

Los Angeles-Long Beach

Santa Monica Bay

Canary Islands (dx = 1 km)

Emergence of sub-mesoscales

Vorticity

Eady flow

Boussinesq SQG

Dissipation Efficiency

SQG

Boussinesq

Energy Flux

SQG

Bouss

PE and KE flux

W Degree of unbalance

The role of unbalanced velocities

Spiral Eddy in SM bay