EGU23-6336, updated on 22 Feb 2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6336
EGU General Assembly 2023
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Use of HDG oceanic models to study eddy formation in coastal upwelling areas

Inés Hernández García1, Albert Oliver Serra2, and Francisco Machín Jiménez1
Inés Hernández García et al.
  • 1Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Physics Department, Spain (ines.hernandez@ulpgc.es, francisco.machin@ulpgc.es)
  • 2Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Instituto Universitario de Sistemas Inteligentes y Aplicaciones Numéricas en Ingeniería (SIANI), Spain (albert.oliver@ulpgc.es)

The Canary Islands region is located in the North-East Atlantic Ocean, next to the African coast. It is situated within the equatorward travelling Canary Current.

This area has a high mesoscale activity. Some important features of this area are the African Upwelling System, the filaments originated by the upwelling, and long-lived cyclonic and anticyclonic mesoscale eddies. The generation of these mesoscale eddies, by the perturbation of the Canary Current caused by the islands, has been largely studied.

The aim of this work is to use a novel Hybridisable Discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) oceanic model, based on Finite Elements, in addition to real in situ and satellite data, in order to study different generation mechanisms and the evolution of the mesoscale eddies south of the Canary Islands.

How to cite: Hernández García, I., Oliver Serra, A., and Machín Jiménez, F.: Use of HDG oceanic models to study eddy formation in coastal upwelling areas, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-6336, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6336, 2023.