Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics from surface drifters and a high-resolution POP simulaltion in the North Atlantic From: Journal of Physical Oceanography | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: McClean, Julie L; Poulain, Pierre-Marie; Pelton, Jimmy W; Maltrud, Mathew E | Copyright American Meteorological Society Sep 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics were calculated from the North Atlantic surface drifter dataset for the years 1993-97 and a high-resolution eddy-resolving configuration of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Parallel Ocean Program (POP) model. The main purpose of the study was to statistically quantify the state of the surface circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean for this period and compare it with the equivalent modeled state. Diffusivities and time and length sc...