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Sub Meso scales, Energy Cascades and Energy Dissipation

Jeroen Molemaker,

Xavier Capet,

James McWilliams

IGPP, UCLA

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Nested modeling (North East Atlantic)

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South-East Pacific

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South West Atlantic

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Los Angeles-Long Beach

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Santa Monica Bay

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Canary Islands (dx = 1 km)

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Emergence of sub-mesoscales

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Vorticity

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Eady flow

Boussinesq SQG

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Dissipation Efficiency

SQG

Boussinesq

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Energy Flux

SQG

Bouss

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PE and KE flux

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W Degree of unbalance

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The role of unbalanced velocities

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Spiral Eddy in SM bay

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