The Annual Cycle of Upper-Ocean Potential Vorticity and its Relationship to Submesoscale Instabilities: Insights from Mooring Observations

Xiaolong Yu, IFREMER, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, Brest, France, Alberto Naveira Garabato, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, Adrian Martin, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Christian E. Buckingham, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Liam Brannigan, Stockholm University, MISU, Stockholm, Sweden