Basin-scale gyres and mesoscale eddies in large lakes: a novel procedure for their detection and characterization, assessed in Lake Geneva

Hamze-Ziabari, Seyed Mahmood; Lemmin, Ulrich; Soulignac, Frédéric; Foroughan, Mehrshad; Barry, David Andrew

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-8785-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-8785-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-8785-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 23

Model evaluation paper

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08 Dec 2022

Model evaluation paper |

| 08 Dec 2022

Basin-scale gyres and mesoscale eddies in large lakes: a novel procedure for their detection and characterization, assessed in Lake Geneva

Seyed Mahmood Hamze-Ziabari, Ulrich Lemmin, Frédéric Soulignac, Mehrshad Foroughan, and David Andrew Barry

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-8785-2022-supplement

Data sets

Data for: Basin-scale gyres and mesoscale eddies in large lakes: A novel procedure for their detection and characterization, assessed in Lake Geneva Seyed Mahmood Hamze-Ziabari, Ulrich Lemmin, Frédéric Soulignac, Mehrshad Foroughan and David Andrew Barry https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7018567

Model code and software

MITgcm/MITgcm: checkpoint67z (Version checkpoint67z) J. M. Campin, P. Heimbach, M. Losch, G. Forget, edhill3, A. Adcroft, amolod, D. Menemenlis, dfer22, C. Hill, O. Jahn, J. Scott, stephdut, M. Mazloff, B. Fox-Kemper, antnguyen13, E. Doddridge, I. Fenty, M. Bates, A. Eichmann, I. Smith, T Martin, J. Lauderdale, R. Abernathey, samarkhatiwala, hongandyan, B. Deremble, dngoldberg, P. Bourgault, and R. Dussin https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4968496

Short summary

A procedure combining numerical simulations, remote sensing, and statistical analyses is developed to detect large-scale current systems in large lakes. By applying this novel procedure in Lake Geneva, strategies for detailed transect field studies of the gyres and eddies were developed. Unambiguous field evidence of 3D gyre/eddy structures in full agreement with predictions confirmed the robustness of the proposed procedure.