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The Role of Horizontal Divergence in Submesoscale Frontogenesis

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Published in 2019 at "Journal of Physical Oceanography"

DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-18-0162.1

Abstract: Oceanic surface submesoscale currents are characterized by anisotropic fronts and filaments with widths from 100 m to a few kilometers; an O(1) Rossby number; and large magnitudes of lateral buoyancy and velocity gradients, cyclonic vorticity,… read more here.

Keywords: asymptotic model; divergence submesoscale; horizontal divergence; submesoscale frontogenesis ... See more keywords