The Vitória Eddy and Its Relation to the Brazil Current.

Schmid, Claudia, Schäfer, Hartmut, Zenk, Walter and Podestá, Guillermo (1995) The Vitória Eddy and Its Relation to the Brazil Current. Open Access Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25 (11). pp. 2532-2546. DOI 10.1175/1520-0485(1995)025<2532:TVEAIR>2.0.CO;2.

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Abstract

In late austral summer 1991 a cyclonic thermocline eddy was detected in the subtropical western South Atlantic off the Brazilian shelf near the city of Vitória. This Vitória eddy was tracked for 55 days by surface drifters drogued at 100-m depth. The drifters had been deployed in the western boundary current regime by FS Meteor as part of a basinwide surface current study. The analysis of a combined CTD/XBT section across the Vitória eddy, together with drifter data and satellite images of the thermal surface structure revealed the unexpected complexity of the region. The eddy interacted not only with the local topography and the Brazil Current, located farther offshore, but also with an extended upwelling regime north of Cabo Frio. The hydrographic and kinematic properties and anomalies of the Vitóia eddy are analyzed and compared with similar vortices described elsewhere in literature.

Document Type: Article
Research affiliation: OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB1 Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics > FB1-PO Physical Oceanography
Refereed: Yes
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Publisher: AMS (American Meteorological Society)
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Date Deposited: 04 Apr 2016 08:24
Last Modified: 05 Apr 2018 12:02
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31942

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