Seasonality in Transition Scale from Balanced to Unbalanced Motions in the World Ocean

Bo Qiu1, Shuiming Chen2, Patrice Klein3, Jinbo Wang4, Hector S. Torres5, Lee-Lueng Fu6 and Dimitris Menemenlis6, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Cnrs/Ifremer/LOPS, Plouzané, France, (4)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)CICESE National Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Mexico, Ensenada, Mexico, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States