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Open ocean regimes of relative dispersion

Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture
Author
OLLITRAULT, Michel
913 Laboratoire de physique des océans [LPO]
GABILLET, Céline
13094 Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale [IRENAV]
COLIN DE VERDIERE, Alain
913 Laboratoire de physique des océans [LPO]

URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10985/10165
DOI
10.1017/S0022112005004556
Date
2005
Journal
Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Abstract

As two fluid particles separate in time, the entire spectrum of eddy motions is being sampled from the smallest to the largest scales. In large-scale geophysical systems for which the Earth rotation is important, it has been conjectured that the relative diffusivity should vary respectively as D2 and D4/3 for distances respectively smaller and larger than a well-defined forcing scale of the order of the internal Rossby radius (with D the r.m.s. separation distance). Particle paths data from a mid-latitude float experiment in the central part of the North Atlantic appear to support these statements partly: two particles initially separated by a few km within two distinct clusters west and east of the mid-Atlantic ridge, statistically dispersed following a Richardson regime (D2∼t3 asymptotically) for r.m.s. separation distances between 40 and 300 km, in agreement with a D4/3 law. At early times, and for smaller separation distances, an exponential growth, in agreement with a D2 law, was briefly observed but only for the eastern cluster (with an e-folding time around 6 days). After a few months or separation distances greater than 300 km, the relative dispersion slowed down naturally to the Taylor absolute dispersion regime.

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