Characterizing the capability of mesoscale eddies to carry drifters in the northwest Pacific

Huizan WANG; Ding LIU; Weimin ZHANG; Jiaxun LI; Bo WANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-019-9149-y

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Characterizing the capability of mesoscale eddies to carry drifters in the northwest Pacific

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- Characterizing the capability of mesoscale eddies to carry drifters in the northwest Pacific
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 38, Issue 6, Pages: 1711-1728(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
  2.Naval Research Academy, Tianjin 300061, China
- Author bio：
  
  WANG Huizan, wanghuizan@126.com
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- DOI：10.1007/s00343-019-9149-y
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- Received：31 May 2019，
  
  Accepted：01 August 2019，
  
  Online First：02 December 2020，
  
  Published：2020-11
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Huizan WANG, Ding LIU, Weimin ZHANG, et al. Characterizing the capability of mesoscale eddies to carry drifters in the northwest Pacific[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020, 38(6): 1711-1728.
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Huizan WANG, Ding LIU, Weimin ZHANG, et al. Characterizing the capability of mesoscale eddies to carry drifters in the northwest Pacific[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2020, 38(6): 1711-1728. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-019-9149-y.

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Mesoscale eddies are common oceanic phenomena. Although many related studies have been conducted

the ability for mesoscale eddies to carry real particles remains poorly addressed. We considered the drifters as real particles to characterize the capability of mesoscale eddies to carry particles. Firstly

mesoscale eddies in the northwest Pacific (99°E-180°E

0°-66°N) were identified using sea level anomaly (SLA) data from 1993 to 2015. Secondly

three important parameters (the carrying days

the number of circles the drifter revolving around the eddy center

and the carrying distances) were calculated by colocalizing eddy data with drifters. Finally

statistical analysis and composite analysis were conducted

reflecting the capability of mesoscale eddies to carry particles. The mechanisms on the carrying capability of eddies were also discussed. Results show that (1) the motion of carried drifters reflects the upper limit of rotational speed of eddies that the drifters revolve around the eddy center by ≤ 90° for one day in most cases; (2) the drifters tend to be carried for a longer time when their minimal distances to the eddy center measured with normalized distance are small; (3) there are two types of eddies (cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies) in different subregions of northwest Pacific

and each has a different carrying capability (on average

similar in the tropical ocean and Subtropical Countercurrent

cyclonic eddies tend to have stronger carrying capability in Southern Kuroshio Extension

and anticyclonic eddies tend to have stronger carrying capability in Northern Kuroshio Extension and Subarctic Gyre); (4) on average

the carried drifters tend to travel for a longer time around the normalized eddy radii ranging from 0.41 to 0.76; (5) the carrying days are related to the Rossby number of the eddy (in general when the Rossby number is smaller

the carrying days are longer).

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