Remote sensing observations of the coherent and non-coherent ring structures in the vicinity of Lesser Antilles
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The North Brazil Current Rings (NBCR) penetration into the Caribbean Sea is being investigated by employing a merged altimeter-derived sea height anomaly (TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and ERS-1, 2), the ocean surface color data (SeaWiFS) and Global Drifter Program information. Four strategies are being applied to process the data: (1) calculations of the Okubo-Weiss parameter for NBCR identification, (2) longitude-time plots (also known as Hovmöller diagrams), (3) two-dimensional Radon transforms and (4) two-dimensional Fourier transforms. A twofold NBCR structure has been detected in the region under investigation. The results have shown that NBC rings mainly propagate into the Caribbean Sea along two principal pathways (near 12 N and 17 N) in the ring translation corridor. Thus, rings following the southern pathway in the fallwinter period can enter through very shallow southern straits as non-coherent structures. A different behavior is observed near the northern pathway (∼17 N), where NBC rings are thought to have a coherent structure during their squeezing into the eastern Caribbean, i.e. conserving the principal characteristics of the incident rings. We attribute this difference in the rings’ behavior to the vertical scales of the rings and to the bottom topography features in the vicinity of the Lesser Antilles.
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