RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, VOL. 20, ES6011, doi:10.2205/2020ES000720, 2020
Characteristics | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | ||||
CE | ACE | CE | ACE | CE | ACE | CE | ACE | |
Date of birth | 1998- | 2000- | 2004- | 2015- | 2003- | 2001- | 2017- | 1993- |
12-11 | 10-02 | 10-22 | 07-30 | 08-28 | 12-31 | 08-15 | 11-18 | |
Lifetime (days) | 68 | 132 | 81 | 120 | 72 | 76 | 64 | 48 |
Thickness, m | 550 | 600 | 300 | 760 | 260 | 410 | 300 | 340 |
Radius, km | 36.63 | 30.52 | 18.59 | 39.96 | 34.41 | 29.14 | 26.92 | 53.83 |
Moving speed , m/s | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.06 |
Volume ($\times 10^{12}$, m$^3$) | 2.32 | 1.61 | 0.33 | 1.50 | 0.97 | 0.69 | 0.68 | 2.73 |
Volume transport (Sv) | 1.29 | 1.11 | 0.23 | 0.80 | 0.10 | 0.32 | 0.43 | 2.18 |
AT ($\times 10^{19}$, J) | -1.84 | 0.38 | -0.15 | 1.23 | -0.59 | 0.68 | -0.6 | 1.76 |
AS ($\times 10^{11}$, kg) | -2.3 | 0.42 | -0.18 | 0.87 | -0.95 | 1.07 | -1.02 | 2.87 |
Heat transport ($\times 10^{13}$, W) | -1.04 | 0.19 | -0.12 | 0.27 | -0.08 | 0.20 | -0.37 | 1.3 |
Salt transport ($\times 10^{5}$, kg s$^{-1}$) | -1.33 | 0.19 | -0.14 | 0.19 | -0.13 | 0.32 | -0.68 | 2.05 |
Total heat transport | -17.68 | 10.45 | -10.56 | 39.42 | -0.88 | 1.6 | -1.48 | 1.3 |
($\times 10^{13}$, W) | ||||||||
Total salt transport | -22.61 | 10.45 | -12.32 | 27.74 | -1.43 | 2.56 | -2.72 | 2.05 |
($\times 10^{5}$, kg s$^{-1}$) | ||||||||
Annual heat transport | -7.07 | 4.18 | -4.22 | 15.76 | -0.35 | 0.64 | -0.59 | 0.52 |
($\times 10^{12}$, W) | ||||||||
Annual salt transport | -9.04 | 4.18 | -4.93 | 11.10 | -0.57 | 1.02 | -1.09 | 0.82 |
($\times 10^{4}$, kg s$^{-1}$) |
Citation: Belonenko
Tatyana, Vadim Zinchenko, Svetlana Gordeeva, Roshin P. Raj
(2020), Evaluation of heat and salt transports by mesoscale
eddies in the Lofoten Basin, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 20,
ES6011, doi:10.2205/2020ES000720.
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