Mesoscale eddies are wiggling features traveling the ocean. They can vary from 10 km in polar areas to 100 km elsewhere. Interestingly enough there are many possible ways to follow where the eddy goes (Bērziņa et al). But why would we want to do that? Well, these “little” vortices transport properties from here to there, be it temperature or gasses or tiny particles that can serve as food to creatures living in the ocean (Flügel et al). Eddies are that powerful to destabilize the atmosphere above them (Putrasahan et al) and even shape extreme weather events (Ferri et al). Not as a single eddy by itself though. It seems that they like to mess around in the ocean only as an eddy-gang. But to see the effect of their gang we need to detect each and every eddy. And the cool thing is - we really can do that (Bērziņa et al). Not a single eddy can escape our thorough gaze. Except maybe those under the sea ice in polar areas, but we are getting there (Libera et al). In EERIE we want to know all about eddies and all they do to our Earth’s climate (Ghosh et al).
All these and many more among the EERIE project contributions to EGU 2024 in Vienna. Check them out!
