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The Canary Islands region is located in the North-East Atlantic Ocean, next to the African coast. It is situated within the equatorward travelling Canary Current.This area has a high mesoscale activity. Some important features of this area are the African Upwelling System, the filaments originated by the upwelling, and long-lived cyclonic and anticyclonic mesoscale eddies. The generation of these mesoscale eddies, by the perturbation of the Canary Current caused by the islands, has been largely studied.The aim of this work is to use a novel Hybridisable Discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) oceanic model, based on Finite Elements, in addition to real in situ and satellite data, in order to study different generation mechanisms and the evolution of the mesoscale eddies south of the Canary Islands. |
