Ensemble versus time averaging: perspectives on mesoscale geostrophic eddy kinetic energy in the North Atlantic

Takaya Uchida1,2, Luolin Sun1,3, Quentin Jamet4, Andrew C Poje5 and William K Dewar3, (1)Florida State University, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Tallahassee, United States, (2)Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Climate Dynamics Laboratory, Center for Earth Sciences, Moscow, Russia, (3)Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, United States, (4)Service Hydrographique Et Oceanographique De La Marine (SHOM), Brest, France, (5)The City University of New York, Department of Mathematics, College Staten Island, Staten Island, United States