Atmospheric Forcing in the California Current System Drives the Seasonal Cycle in Eddy Length Scale via an Inverse Kinetic Energy Cascade

Jack Gazeley1, Sarah T Gille1, Lia Siegelman2, Alberto Naveira Garabato3, Shang-Ping Xie4, Jackie C May5 and Joseph Matthew D'Addezio5, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanpgraphy, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (5)Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, United States