altimetry

The fate of mesoscale eddy kinetic energy represents a large source of uncertainty in the global ocean energy budget. Satellite …

A method for estimating 26°N overturning from time-varying satellite altimetry and time-averaged boundary profiles of dynamic height.

A 4-month glider mission was analyzed to assess turbulent dissipation in an anticyclonic eddy at the western boundary of the …

The response of the subpolar Southern Ocean (sSO) to wind forcing is assessed using satellite radar altimetry. sSO sea level exhibits a …

Changes in the sea-level annual cycle (SLAC) can have profound impacts on coastal areas, including increased flooding risk and …

The Ross Gyre is one of the main current systems of the Southern Ocean and conveys heat toward the cold continental shelves of the …

The Labrador Sea is one of a small number of deep convection sites in the North Atlantic, that contribute to the meridional overturning …

Despite the major role played by mesoscale eddies in redistributing the energy of the large-scale circulation, our understanding of …

A statistical relationship between satellite sea surface height (SSH) and observed transports at 26°N is used to build a proxy for the AMOC transport since 1992. The method relies on a strong relationship between (1) the interannual variability of spatially-smoothed SSH at the western boundary of the Atlantic and (2) the RAPID 26°N estimate of upper mid-ocean transport (UMO, top ~1100m) across the Atlantic. Explained variance is very high, but the method assumes stationarity in the relationship between SSH and UMO, which would likely be violated on longer timescales associated with e.g., deep watermass change.