Journal of Geophysical Research OceansSupporting Information forMesoscale eddies in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean: three-dimensional eddy structures and heat/salt transportsDi Dong

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Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans Supporting Information for

Mesoscale eddies in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean: three- dimensional eddy structures and heat/salt transports

Di Dong

, Peter Brandt

, Ping Chang

, Florian Schütte

, Xiaofeng Yang

, Jinhui Yan

and Jisheng Zeng

1 South China Sea Institute of Planning and Environmental Research, SOA, Guangzhou, PR China.

2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China.

3 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany.

4 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany.

5 Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. USA.

6 Physical Oceanography Laboratory/CIMSST, Ocean University of China and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.

7 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. USA.

8 State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China.

Corresponding author: Di Dong (dongdide90@126.com )

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Introduction

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Confidential manuscript submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

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Figure S1. Distribution of the number of (a) AEs and (b) CEs detected in 0.25

x0.25

bins during the analysis period of 8035 days based on the CH17 dataset. The SAF and

the SAB are shown by dashed lines. A 1.25° x 1.25° running mean filter is used to

reduce data noises. Values larger than 70 are shown with the same color as that

assigned to a value of 70.