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Geoscience Letters

Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

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Fig. 2

From: A survey of submesoscale currents

Fig. 2

Sea surface temperature of California. Satellite image on June 3, 2006 (NOAA Coastwatch). Notice the mesoscale contrasts over \(\approx\) 200 km and the submesoscale sharp fronts and filaments on a scale of \(\approx\) 5–10 km. In addition, evident are frontal instabilities (wiggles) and a roll-up into a coherent vortex (in the northeast corner)

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