Publications
- A Lagrangian description of transport associated with a Front-Eddy interaction: application to data from the North-Western Mediterranean Sea. Michal Branicki, Ana M Mancho, Stephen Wiggins We explore the application of dynamical systems ideas to provide a thorough Lagrangian description of the interaction ...
- Biological activity in the wake of an island close to a coastal upwelling. Mathias Sandulescu, Cristoobal Lopez, Emilio Hernandez-Garcia and Ulrike Feudel
Ecological Complexity 5, 228-237 (2008)Hydrodynamic forcing plays an important role in shaping the dynamics of
marine organisms, in particular of plank ... - Comparative study of mixing and biological activity of the Benguela and Canary upwelling systems. Rossi, V.; López,C.; Sudre, J.; Hernández-García,E.; Garçon, V.
Geophysical Research Letters 35, L11602 (1-5) (2008)We present a comparative study of the horizontal mixing properties, from satellite derived data of the surface veloci ... - Comparison between the Okubo-Weiss parameter and Finite-Size-Lyapunov-Exponents computed from Altimetry in the Algerian basin. d'Ovidio, F; Isern-Fontanet, J;López, C; Hernández-García, E; García-Ladona, E
Deep-Sea Research I 56, 15-31 (2009)Transport and mixing properties of surface currents can be detected from altimetric data by both Eulerian and Lagrang ... - Distinguished trajectories in time dependent vector fields. J. A. Jiménez Madrid, Ana M. Mancho
Chaos 19, 013111 (2009)We introduce a new definition of distinguished trajectory that
generalises the concepts of fixed point and period ... - Lagrangian transport through an ocean front in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea. A.M. Mancho, E. Hernandez-Garcia,D. Small, S. Wiggins and V. Fernandez
Journal of Physical Oceanography 38, 1222-1237 (2008)We analyze with the tools of lobe dynamics the velocity field from a numerical
simulation of the surface circulat ... - Nonlinear Processes in Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows. A. M. Mancho, S. Wiggins, A. Turiel, E. Hernández-García, C. López, E. García-Ladona.
Nonlinear Proc. Geoph 17 (2010), 3, 283-285Nonlinear phenomena are essential ingredients in many oceanicand atmospheric processes, and successful u ... - Plankton blooms in vortices: The role of biological and hydrodynamic timescales. Sandulescu,M; López, C; Hernández-García, E; Feudel,U
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 14, 443–454We study the interplay of hydrodynamic mesoscale structures and the growth of plankton in the wake of an island, and ... - Stretching fields and lines in the transport dynamics of the Western Mediterranean. Hernandez-Garcia, E; d'Ovidio, F.; Fernandez, V.; Garcia-Ladona, E.; Isern-Fontanet, J.; Lopez, C.; Mancho, A.M.; Small, D.; Wiggins, S.
PAMM, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 7, 1101307-1101308 (2007)We summarize recent work on the location of Lagrangian structures
in velocity fields obtained from realistic si ... - The hidden Geometry of Ocean Flows. C. Mendoza, A. M. Mancho
Physical Review Letters (2010)We introduce a new global Lagrangian descriptor that is applied to flows with general time dependence (altimetri ... - The Lagrangian description of aperiodic flows: a case study of the Kuroshio Current. C. Mendoza, A. M. Mancho In this article we review several recently developed Lagrangian tools and
propose their properly combined use for ... - The turnstile mechanism across the Kuroshio current: analysis of dynamics in altimeter velocity fields. C. Mendoza, A. M. Mancho, M. H. Rio
Nonlinear Proc Geoph 17 (2010), 2, 103-111In this article we explore the utility of dynamical systems tools for visualizing transport in oceanic flows des ... - Top marine predators track Lagrangian coherent structures. E. Tew Kai, V. Rossi, J. Sudre, H. Weimerskirch, C. López, E. Hernández-García, F. Marsac, V. Garçon
PNAS, to appearMeso- and submesoscales (fronts, eddies, filaments) in surface ocean flow have a crucial influence on marine ecosystems ... - Tracking oceanic currents by singularity analysis of Microwave Sea Surface Temperature images. A. Turiel, J. Solé, V. Nieves, J. Ballabrera-Poy & E. García-Ladona
Rem.Sen. Env. 112, 2246-2260 (2008)In the recent years, the power of employing singularity analysis of scalar variables to perform pattern recognition in ...
Software
- Ana Mancho Se adjunta un codigo de matlab que dibuja una variedad estable y otra inestable en
el dia 665 de la simulacion del ...
Presentations at conferences
- Distinguished trajectories and the Lagrangian structure of geophysical flows. Ana M Mancho, J. A. Jimenez Madrid
EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna 19-24 AprilAperiodic geophysical flows are poorly understood as theory whichis well established in autonomous ... - Distinguished trajectories in time dependent geophysical flows. Ana M Mancho, J. A. Jimenez Madrid
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah 17-21 May 2009Transport of passive scalars in geophysical flows has been described in recent years in the framework of the theo ... - Distinguished trajectories in time-dependent flows. J. A. Jiménez Madrid, A. M. Mancho Presentation at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, APS
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Novemb ... - New tools for aperiodic time dependent flows: applications to the description of transport across the Kuroshio current. Ana M Mancho, Carolina Mendoza
LAPCOD MEETING 2009, La Londes-les-Maures, September 7-11 2009In recent years there has been a lot of progress in the application of dynamical ...
- Transport routes in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea: a dynamical system perspective. Ana M. Mancho, Stephen Wiggins, Emilio Hernández-Garcia, Vicente Fernández Presentation at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. November ... - Two presentations on stretching fields and lines in the Western Mediterranean. E. Hernandez-Garcia The link above contains the presentation
"Transport dynamics in the Western Mediterranean: Stretching fields and ...
Dissemination
- Las variedades invariantes del oceáno. Ana M. Mancho Conferencia en el Ciclo: La mujer elemento innovador en la ciencia.
Jornadas en la Universidad de La Laguna, 12 ...
