Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
10-1-2022
Department
Marine Science
School
Ocean Science and Engineering
Abstract
The geographical variability, frequency content, and vertical structure of near-surface oceanic kinetic energy (KE) are important for air-sea interaction, marine ecosystems, operational oceanography, pollutant tracking, and interpreting remotely sensed velocity measurements. Here, KE in high-resolution global simulations (HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model; HYCOM, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model; MITgcm), at the sea surface (0 m) and at 15 m, are compared with KE from undrogued and drogued surface drifters, respectively. Global maps and zonal averages are computed for low-frequency (
Publication Title
JGR Oceans
Volume
127
Issue
10
Recommended Citation
Arbic, B. K.,
Elipot, S.,
Brasch, J. M.,
Menemenlis, D.,
Ponte, A. L.,
Shriver, J. F.,
Zaron, E. D.,
Alford, M. H.,
Buijsman, M. C.,
Abernathey, R.,
Garcia, D.,
Guan, L.,
Martin, P. E.,
Nelson, A. D.
(2022). Near-Surface Oceanic Kinetic Energy Distributions From Drifter Observations and Numerical Models. JGR Oceans, 127(10).
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/20605