Spatial and Seasonal Distributions of Frontal Activity over the Continental Shelf in the Bay of Biscay Focus on Density Fronts in Winter

Özge Yelekçi (1) , Guillaume Charria (1) , Xavier Capet (2) , Gilles Reverdin (3) , Sébastien Theetten (1) , Frédéric Vandermeirsch (1) , Joël Sudre (4) , Hussein Yahia (5)

1 DYNECO - Unité Dynamiques des Écosystèmes Côtiers
2 PEPS - Processus de couplage à Petite Echelle, Ecosystèmes et Prédateurs Supérieurs
3 IPSO - Interactions et Processus au sein de la couche de Surface Océanique
4 LEGOS - Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales
5 GeoStat - Geometry and Statistics in acquisition data

AIMS: Describing spatial and seasonal distributions of frontal activity over the continental shelf in the Bay of Biscay. Investigating the wintertime mid-shelf fronts in vicinity of the river plumes. Exploring the physical dynamics and the existence of baroclinic instabilities in such fronts from a scale decomposition of the vertical buoyancy flux.

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Özge Yelekçi, Guillaume Charria, Xavier Capet, Gilles Reverdin, Sébastien Theetten, et al.. Spatial and Seasonal Distributions of Frontal Activity over the Continental Shelf in the Bay of Biscay Focus on Density Fronts in Winter. 2016 AGU Ocean Science Meeting, Feb 2016, New Orleans, United States. , 2016. ⟨hal-01275158⟩