Andrew C. Poje

TL;DR: The results demonstrate the feasibility and utility of deploying large clusters of drifting instruments to provide synoptic observations of spatial variability of the ocean surface velocity field and allow quantification of the submesoscale-driven dispersion missing in current operational circulation models and satellite altimeter-derived velocity fields.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the transport of particles in a general, two-dimensional, incompressible flow in the presence of a transient eddy, i.e., a bounded set of closed streamlines with a finite time of existence.

TL;DR: Downwelling of water at the boundaries of different water masses concentrates floating material at this boundary with high concentrations at density fronts and with cyclonic vorticity, suggesting a paradigm in which nearby objects form submesoscale clusters, and these clusters then spread apart.

TL;DR: In this paper, the existence of finite-time invariant manifolds associated with transient, mesoscale events such as ring detachment and merger is proved based on computer-assisted analytic results.

TL;DR: A Lagrangian analysis of the transport and dispersal of plumes observed in satellite-derived ocean color images was conducted using a data-assimilating model of the Gulf of Mexico.