Rings in the Gulf of Mexico and Stochastic Resonance

Benjamín Martínez-López, Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo, Carlos Gay García

2012

Abstract

In this work, we used a nonlinear, reduced gravity model of the Gulf of Mexico to study the effect of a seasonal variation of the reduced gravity parameter on ring-shedding behaviour. When small amplitudes of the seasonal variation are used, the distributions of ring-shedding periods are bi-modal. When the amplitude of the seasonal variation is large enough, the ring-shedding events shift to a regime with a constant, yearly period. If the seasonal amplitude of the reduce gravity parameter is small but a noise term is included, then a yearly regime is obtained, suggesting that stochastic resonance could play a role in the ring-shedding process taking place in the Gulf of Mexico.

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in Harvard Style

Martínez-López B., Zavala-Hidalgo J. and Gay García C. (2012). Rings in the Gulf of Mexico and Stochastic Resonance . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: MSCCEC, (SIMULTECH 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-20-4, pages 534-538. DOI: 10.5220/0004165805340538


in Bibtex Style

@conference{msccec12,
author={Benjamín Martínez-López and Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo and Carlos Gay García},
title={Rings in the Gulf of Mexico and Stochastic Resonance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: MSCCEC, (SIMULTECH 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={534-538},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004165805340538},
isbn={978-989-8565-20-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: MSCCEC, (SIMULTECH 2012)
TI - Rings in the Gulf of Mexico and Stochastic Resonance
SN - 978-989-8565-20-4
AU - Martínez-López B.
AU - Zavala-Hidalgo J.
AU - Gay García C.
PY - 2012
SP - 534
EP - 538
DO - 10.5220/0004165805340538