Posted by Julie McClean on November 09, 2000 at 18:48:12 (UTC):
In Reply to: abyssal eddies posted by Julie McClean on November 07, 2000 at 10:32:39:
: Randy, Xiaoshu, and Tracey:
: This is a very well constructed poster. I would like some
: clarification regarding the form of the covariances in the
: IO scheme. It is stated that it is a function of the
: measurment locations and does not depend on the measurements
: themselves. I assume then that ``r_0'' (equation 3 in the
: appendix on the multivariate IO) is the first baroclinic
: rossby radius. Did you consider using length scales from
: the data? Can you please explain your choice?
: A number of issues have been raised in the forum regarding
: the role of topography, the locality of the array etc. It
: may be that a very realistic numerical model may help to
: clarify some of these issues. I am extracting a deep velocity
: field and a sea surface height field from a recent 0.1-degree,
: 40-level POP simulation of the North Atlantic. As suggested by
: Randy, I will first look to see if there is any evidence of
: these abyssal eddies.
: Julie