Ecological Safety of Coastal and Shelf Zones of Sea Ecological Safety of Coastal and Shelf Zones of Sea 2413-5577 20240302 Research Article Multiscale Eddies Dynamics in the Pacific Ocean Adjacent to the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Northern Kuril Islands Zimin A. V.
Russian Federation
zimin2@mail.ru Romanenkov D. A.
Russian Federation
dmromanenkov@yandex.ru Konik A. A.
Russian Federation
konikrshu@gmail.com Atadzhanova O. A.
Russian Federation
oksanam07@list.ru Svergun E. I.
Russian Federation
egor-svergun@yandex.ru Varkentin A. I.
Russian Federation
a.varkentin@kamniro.vniro.ru Tepnin O. B.
Russian Federation
tenpin@yandex.ru Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of RAS Moscow Russia Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS Sevastopol Russia Kamchatka Branch of VNIRO Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia 25 09 2024 2024 3 16 35 13 05 2024 17 06 2024 07 06 2024 Copyright © 2024, A. V. Zimin, D. A. Romanenkov, A. A. Konik, O. A. Atadzhanova, E. I. Svergun, A. I. Varkentin, O. B. Tepnin 2024 A. V. Zimin, D. A. Romanenkov, A. A. Konik, O. A. Atadzhanova, E. I. Svergun, A. I. Varkentin, O. B. Tepnin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ https://ecological-safety.ru/en/repository/issues/2024/03/02/

The Pacific Ocean shelf and continental slope off the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Northern Kuril Islands are the area of spawning and early stages of life for some commercial fish species. However, it remains a poorly studied area with a limited set of observational data. In this paper, we perform a comprehensive analysis of heterogeneous satellite observations and global tidal model results over March–August 2015–2021. The work aims to obtain new information on the spatial and temporal variability of the characteristics of different-scale eddy structures and to assess the influence of tidal dynamics on some features of this variability. The following open data archives and atlases are used: Mesoscale Eddy Trajectory Atlas Product Meta3.2 DT, Terra, Aqua/MODIS and VIIRS/Suomi NPP (ocean surface temperature, chlorophyll a), Sentinel-1A/B radar images, NASA SMAP wind, AVISO absolute dynamic topography, TPXO9 tidal currents, CMEMS GLORYS12v1 currents. The paper uses the analysis results to assess the interannual and seasonal variability of the incidence and characteristics of mesoscale and submesoscale eddies and its relation to variations in the East Kamchatka Current and wind regime. The contribution of the tide to the eddy dynamics is shown. As an example, we consider the case of manifestation of small eddies at the periphery of the mesoscale anticyclonic eddy in Avacha Bay. It is shown that the interaction of this anticyclonic structure with tidal currents can serve as an independent mechanism of submesoscale eddy generation. This finding can be extended to the entire study region, which appears to be important for understanding the factors affecting the survival of commercial fishes at early life stages.

 eddy altimetry radar optical range mesoscale eddies submesoscale eddies tide currents vorticity pollock Pacific Ocean This work has been supported by the grants of the Russian Science Foundation № 23-17-00174, https://rscf.ru/project/23-17-00174/

About the authors:

Aleksey V. Zimin, Head of Laboratory, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences (30 1st Line of Vasilevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, 119053, Russian Federation), Dr.Sci. (Geogr.), ResearcherID: C-5885-2014, Scopus Author ID: 55032301400, zimin2@mail.ru

Dmitry A. Romanenkov, Leading Research Associate, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences (30 1st Line of Vasilevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, 119053, Russian Federation), Ph.D. (Geogr.), ResearcherID: U-8280-2017, Scopus Author ID: 6506855768, dmromanenkov@yandex.ru

Aleksandr A. Konik, Research Associate, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences (30 1st Line of Vasilevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, 119053, Russian Federation), Ph.D. (Geogr.), ResearcherID: AAB-7195-2020, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2089-158X, Scopus Author ID: 57203864647, konikrshu@gmail.com

Oksana A. Atadzhanova, Senior Research Associate, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences (30 1st Line of Vasilevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, 119053, Russian Federation), Research Associate, Marine Hydrophysical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (2 Kapitanskaya St., Sevastopol, 299011, Russian Federation), Ph.D. (Geogr.), ResearcherID: R-7835-2018, Scopus Author ID: 57188718743, oksanam07@list.ru

Egor I. Svergun, Research Associate, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences (30 1st Line of Vasilevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, 119053, Russian Federation), Ph.D. (Geogr.), ResearcherID: AAC-7289-2020, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9228-5765, Scopus Author ID: 57195066881, egor-svergun@yandex.ru

Aleksandr I. Varkentin, Leading Research Associate, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences (30 1st Line of Vasilevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, 119053, Russian Federation), Deputy Head of Kamchatka branch of Federal State Budget Scientific Institution "Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and oceanography" ("KamchatNIRO") (18 Naberezhnaya St., Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 683000, Russian Federation), Ph.D. (Biol.), a.varkentin@kamniro.vniro.ru

Oleg B. Tepnin, Senior Research Associate, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences (30 1st Line of Vasilevsky Island, Saint Petersburg, 119053, Russian Federation), Head of Oceanography Sector of Kamchatka branch of Federal State Budget Scientific Institution "Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography" ("KamchatNIRO") (18 Naberezhnaya St., Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, 683000, Russian Federation), ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9596-4336, ResearcherID: KIL-1378-2024, tenpin@yandex.ru

Contribution of the authors:

Aleksey V. Zimin – article concept, complex analysis and interpretation of the results, final version of the manuscript

Dmitry A. Romanenkov – analysis and interpretation of the data on section Multiscale eddies, significant alterations while revising the article text

Aleksandr A. Konik – analysis and interpretation of the data on sections Mesoscale eddies and Multiscale eddies and tidal dynamics, work on the article draft

Oksana A. Atadzhanova – analysis and interpretation of the data on section Submesoscale eddies, writing the article draft

Egor I. Svergun – work on the data of section Multiscale eddies and tidal dynamics, work on the article draft

Aleksandr I. Varkentin – complex interpretation of the results, work on the article draft

Oleg B. Tepnin – complex data analysis, work on the article draft

All the authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

Article text not included.

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