Posted by Mark Wimbush on November 06, 2000 at 13:49:43:
In the first figure of the Geostrophy section, does the
"observed shear" have no TRM filtering? It would be
interesting to show what this correlation looks like with
the optimum (Godin + 5-day TRM) filtering.
I would expect that the optimum length of the TRM filter
would be greater for hydrographic station pairs which are
far apart than for those which are close together. But
only a single overall optimum is given: 5 days. Do you in
fact see significantly differenct optimum lengths for the
different CM's (with different CTD station separations)?
If so, is there a consistent pattern of dependence of
optimum TRM length on CTD station separation?
Have the temperature data in the third figure of the
Variability section been corrected for the time-varying
actual depths of the current meters? Is it significant
that the two strong warmings at CM08, seen in this figure,
seem to occur near the times of maximum westward velocity
recorded by this current meter (first figure)?
The "tilt" of the features seen in the T/P velocity data
(last figure of Variability section) suggests shoreward
propagation of these eddy features at about 4 km /day.
[Note I don't understand the last phrase in the caption
of this figure: What does the 650 m temperature have to
do with the figure?]
It's interesting that the largest transport-per-unit-depth
(TPUD) peaks at the three different levels are at quite
different times (first figure in Transport section). I'm
particularly struck with the highest TPUD peak at 650 m
(70 Sv/km) being at a time of a rather small local maximum
in the surface TPUD.