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Objectives¶

Explain the floater’s observations:
- using FSLE: there may be an interesting result that still needs a quantitative assessment.
- using SQG: we may be limited by the resolution of SSH product
- using existing high-resolution numerical outputs (Paulo’s model) to test the skills of our analytical tools
- using surface Chl
Explain the glider’s observations in the same way?
New numerical simulation:
- specific to a region to the east of the Hawaiian islands
- more realistic forcing by mesoscale eddies
- passive and active tracers
- effect of wind and Ekman dynamics (is this new?)
- effect of downscaling (not new)
- relation between FSLE, SQG-deduced vertical velocity, vertical velocity and passive tracer up/downwelling
Relation between FSLE and other components of the biogeochemical system:
- Tuna and turtle
- DMS
Analysis of the 1/10 and 1/30 deg. OFES runs