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Non-Gaussian Velocity Probability Density Functions: An Altimetric Perspective of the Mediterranean Sea

AutorIsern-Fontanet, Jordi CSIC ORCID ; García-Ladona, Emilio CSIC ORCID ; Font, Jordi CSIC ORCID CVN; García-Olivares, Antonio CSIC ORCID
Fecha de publicaciónnov-2006
EditorAmerican Meteorological Society
CitaciónJournal of Physical Oceanography 36(11): 2153-2164 (2006)
ResumenVelocity probability density functions (PDFs) are a key tool to study complex flows and are of great importance to model particle dispersion. The PDFs of geostrophic velocities derived from sea level anomalies maps for the Mediterranean Sea have been computed and analyzed, guided by recent results found in studies of two-dimensional and geostrophic turbulence. At the basin scale results show that the geostrophic velocity PDF derived from SLA maps is non-Gaussian. To understand the origin of this non-Gaussianity, a topological partition of the flow based on the Okubo–Weiss parameter is applied to separate the contribution of coherent vortices from the background field. After such separation the non-Gaussian part of the PDF appears mostly associated with the presence of such structures. Only about 20% of the vortices identified in the dataset are mainly responsible for this deviation. These vortices, called intense vortices in previous works, are those vortices with values of the amplitude larger than or equal to two standard deviations of the Okubo–Weiss parameter and correspond to vortices with a radius on the order of 40 km
Descripción12 pages, 9 figures
Versión del editorhttps://doi.org/10.1175/JPO2971.1
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/27417
DOI10.1175/JPO2971.1
ISSN0022-3670
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