High Resolution in Ocean Models (IMAGE)

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

High Resolution in Ocean Models

Caption

Modeled surface relative vorticity in the Gulf Stream region depicting the flow rotation and shear as a function of horizontal grid spacing (~50, 6, and 2 km, respectively). In addition to a well defined Gulf Stream and associated mesoscale eddies, one can observe an increased number of small-scale features (submesoscale) that arise when the model horizontal resolution is increased to ~2 km.

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Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

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