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Interactive comment on “A modelling study of eddy-splitting by an Island/Seamount” by Shengmu Yang et al

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Author	Referee, Y. Lu
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	been elucidated completely”, and P3L15 says “to examine its kinematic characters and test eddy splitting process using numerical simulations”. Indeed, the above statements are consistent with what being presented: the paper primarily focuses on describing kinematics of simulated eddies but offers little on understanding dynamics. One wonders whether this is sufficient for a primary publication. 2. A major conclusion of the study is the dependence of eddy behavior on two non-dimensional numbers: R the ratio of island radius to eddy radius, and S the ratio of eddy submergence depth to eddy vertical depth. The question to ask is: can eddy radius and vertical depth be all arbitrary? What role does background stratification – that defines the local Rossby radius of deformation – play in defining these length scales? I note that the background stratification is the same for all the model experiments. Can this limit the generalization of the dependence of splitting behavior on R and S? I feel that besides simply describing kinematics, providing dynamic explanation of the model results will make this study more valuable. 3. English writing needs significant improvement.
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