On the collision between deep anticyclones and seamounts

✍ Scribed by Gordon E Swaters

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 293 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0997-7546
• DOI: 10.1016/s0997-7546(01)01124-4

✦ Synopsis

Numerical simulations of the collision between deep topographically-steered anticyclonic eddies and seamounts are described. The simulations are based on a two-layer intermediate length-scale model which filters out barotropic processes and focuses on the sub-inertial baroclinic dynamics within the context of allowing finite-amplitude height variations in the deep cold eddies and a background topographic vorticity gradient.