Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
NPG
Articles | Volume 29, issue 4
Articles | Volume 29, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-345-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-345-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 29, issue 4
Research article
 | 
07 Oct 2022
Research article |  | 07 Oct 2022

Applying dynamical systems techniques to real ocean drifters

Irina I. Rypina, Timothy Getscher, Lawrence J. Pratt, and Tamay Ozgokmen

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https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-29-345-2022-supplement

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Submesoscale Processes and Lagrangian Analysis on the Shelf (SPLASH) surface drifter’s interpolated to 5-minute intervals data in the Louisiana Bight from 2017-04-19 to 2017-06-08 H. Huntley, G. Novelli, A. Poje, P. Miron, and E. Ryan https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-0pkg-hd54

NCOM forecasts at 1km resolution during the Submesoscale Processes and Lagrangian Analysis on the Shelf (SPLASH) experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2017-04-19 to 2017-05-30 G. Jacobs and P. Spence https://doi.org/10.7266/n7-80ay-rx31

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Techniques from dynamical systems theory have been widely used to study transport in ocean flows. However, they have been typically applied to numerically simulated trajectories of water parcels. This paper applies different dynamical systems techniques to real ocean drifter trajectories from the massive release in the Gulf of Mexico. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive comparison of the performance of different dynamical systems techniques with application to real drifters.
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