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Lagrangian geographies of the Gulf of Mexico

Philippe Miron
RSMAS, University of Miami
(Abstract received 03/26/2019 for session B)
ABSTRACT

Using trajectories from drifter and float trajectory data, we construct geographies of the Lagrangian circulation in the Gulf of Mexico at the surface and depth, respectively. A Lagrangian geography is composed of weakly communicating basins of attraction for almost-invariant forward attracting sets revealed from a spectral analysis of discrete transfer operators (transition matrices) computed using the trajectory data. We discuss implications of the resulting Lagrangian geographies for connectivity. (Joint work with F. Beron-Vera, M. Olascoaga, G. Froyland, P. P ́erez-Brunius and J. Sheinbaum; support provided by CONACyT–SENER and GoMRI.)