- Aviso+
- Aplicaciones
- Ocean
- Mesoscale circulation
- Eddies around the world
- Tehuantepec eddies
In winter, winds blow by pulses through a mountain pass across the Tehuantepec Isthmus (Mexico) to fan out over the Mexican Pacific in the center of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, generating large mesoscale eddies.
- Agulhas rings
The Agulhas eddies are formed by retroflection of the Agulhas current, current, which runs along the southeastern coast of the African continent.
- Ierapetra gyre
The Ierapetra gyre is an anticyclonic gyre that forms as a result of wind interactions with the relief on Crete and of ocean circulation in the Kasos strait
- Alboran eddies
In the Mediterranean Sea, near the Gibraltar strait in the Alboran Sea, the atlantic jet generates one or even two anticyclonic eddies.