Éditeur(s) : Amer Geophysical Union
Résumé : In the Atlantic Ocean, the northward export of warm surface water is compensated by a southward flow of cold North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). The NADW is transported southward along the American continental margin within the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC). Some tracer and float observations have shown that part of the DWBC water flows eastward along the equator. Here we present three meridional velocity sections which give an instantaneous image of the top-to-bottom zonal circulation along the equatorial Atlantic. They reveal the presence of Equatorial Deep Jets (EDJs) between 1 degrees 30'N and 1 degrees 30'S, alternating eastward-westward currents with short vertical scale, surrounded by columns of eastward currents (the Extra Equatorial Jets or EEJs) at 2 degreesN and 2 degreesS. In addition to direct velocity measurements, tracer distributions give indications of water-mass feeding of the EDJs and EEJs by the DWBC.
Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2001-03 , Vol. 28 , N. 5 , P. 819-822

Droits : 2001 AGU
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10369/9567.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10369/

Éditeur(s) : Gauthier-Villars
Résumé : We present results of sequential data assimilation of altimetric data in a linear tropical Atlantic model, using an analysis technique that we have developed. We use sea level anomaly fields obtained from altimetric data of the satellite Geosat. Despite the weak amplitudes of the anomaly fields, we obtain marked improvements of the model simulations due to assimilations. Thus, we show that altimetric data may be very useful for improving model simulations when adapted assimilation techniques are applied.
Oceanologica Acta (0399-1784) (Gauthier-Villars), 1992 , Vol. 15 , N. 5 , P. 525-536

Droits : info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00101/21179/18796.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00101/21179/