Matthew H. Alford

Ubiquity and seasonality of deep submesoscales in the Southern Ocean revealed by elephant seals

Abstract Ocean submesoscale fronts with a size of 1–20 km have been extensively documented within the surface mixed layer, but little is known about their existence below it. We analyze a record of 133 598 dives performed by instrumented Southern Elephant Seals from 2014 to 2020...