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Article Dans Une Revue Ocean Dynamics Année : 2021

Determining the dependence of the power supply to the ocean on the length and time scales of the dynamics between the meso-scale and the synoptic scale, from satellite data

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The input of mechanical power to the ocean due to the surface wind-stress, in regions which correspond to different regimes of ocean dynamics, is considered using data from satellites observations. Its dependence on the coarse-graining range of the atmospheric and oceanic velocity in space from 0.5 o to 10 o and time from 6h to 40 days is determined. In the area of the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio extensions the dependence of the power-input on space-time coarse-graining varies over tenfold for the coarse-graining considered. It decreases over twofold for the Gulf Stream extension and threefold for the Kuroshio extension, when the coarse-graining length-scale passes from a few degrees to 0.5 o at a temporal coarse-graining scale of a few days. It increases over threefold in the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio extensions when the coarse-graining passes from several days to 6h at a spatial coarse-graining of a few degrees. The power input is found to increase monotonically with shorter coarse-graining in time. Its variation with coarse-graining in space has no definite sign. Results show that including the dynamics at scales below a few degrees reduces considerably the power input by air-sea interaction in regions of strongly non-linear ocean currents. When the ocean velocities are not considered in the shear calculation the power-input is considerably (up to threefold) increased. The dependence of the power input on coarse-graining in space and time is close to being multiplicatively separable in all regions and for most of the coarse-graining domain considered.
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hal-03163044 , version 1 (17-03-2021)

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Achim Wirth. Determining the dependence of the power supply to the ocean on the length and time scales of the dynamics between the meso-scale and the synoptic scale, from satellite data. Ocean Dynamics, 2021, ⟨10.1007/s10236-020-01439-4⟩. ⟨hal-03163044⟩

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