Fig. 11

Decomposition of inverted flow from satellite data plotted as velocity vectors, stream function and poloidal potential. A decomposition of the toroidal and poloidal components of the inverted flow from satellite data, seen in Figs. 7 and 8, as velocity (column one), stream function (column two) and poloidal potential (third column). The input, top row, is split into inside and outside the tangentially geostrophic ambiguous patches, rows two and three, before being summed together in the final row. As with previous decompositions, the input and the summed decomposition are identical and flow is mostly restricted to the region of interest with the decomposed maps