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Dugan, J.P., Mied, R.P., Mignerey, P.C. and Schuetz, A.F. (1982). Compact, intrathermocline eddies in the Sargasso Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research 87: doi: 10.1029/JC087iC01p00385. issn: 0148-0227. |
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We report observations of isolated lenses of constant-temperature water embedded in the permanent thermocline in the Sargasso Sea. These features are observed to have vertical extents of ≲220 m horizontal dimensions of ≲65 km, and residence depths near 700 m. A dynamic model is constructed which permits balance among the pressure gradient. Coriolis, and cyclostrophic forces and maintains the lens against gravitational collapse. A results that anticyclonic rim velocities approaches 20 cm s-1 are permitted and that these eddies have finite radii of the order of 50 km, at which their thicknesses fall to zero. |
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