Temporally Varying Mesoscale Eddy Characteristics in the California Current System Identified from RAFOS Floats
The SOund Fixing And Ranging (RAFOS) floats were deployed by the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) near California coast from 1992 to 2004 at depth between 150 and 600 m (http://www.oc.nps.edu/npsRAFOS/).Each drifter trajectory is adaptively decomposed using the empirical Puzzles New/Sealed mode decomposition (EMD) into low-frequency (non-diffusive,