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This study shows a Gaussian-surface fit method to obtain key parameters of oceanic mesoscale eddies from maps of sea level anomaly (MSLA). The mesoscale eddies are firstly divided into mononuclear eddies and multiple eddies through a simple splitting strategy and then fitted in a corresponding Gaussian model. Two examples are selected to show the fitting result for mononuclear eddies and multiple eddies, respectively. The result shows that the method works well and efficiently.
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Li, S., Sun, L. (2018). A Gaussian-Surface Fit to Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies. In: Qiao, F., Patnaik, S., Wang, J. (eds) Recent Developments in Mechatronics and Intelligent Robotics. ICMIR 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65978-7_21
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