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SUBMITTER: Wang H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10482927 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Hailin H Qiu Bo B Liu Hanrui H Zhang Zhengguang Z
Nature communications 20230906 1
Oceanic transport of heat by ubiquitous mesoscale eddies plays a critical role in regulating climate variability and redistributing excess heat absorbed by ocean under global warming. Eddies have long been simplified as axisymmetric vortices and their influence on heat transport remains unclear. Here, we combine satellite and drifter data and show that oceanic mesoscale eddies are asymmetric and directionally-dependent, and are controlled by their self-sustaining nature and their dynamical envir ...[more]