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The global oceanic transports of energy, plankton, and other tracers by mesoscale eddies can be estimated by combining satellite altimetry and in situ data. However, the revolving channels of particles entrained by mesoscale eddies, which could help explain the dynamic process of eddies entraining materials, are still unknown. In this study, satellite altimeter and drifter data from 1993 to 2016 are adopted, and the normalized trajectory clustering algorithm (N-TRACLUS) is proposed to extract the revolving channels of drifters. First, the trajectories of drifters are normalized and clustered by using the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm. Next, the revolving channels of drifters around the eddy center are extracted. The ring or arc pattern in the middle of a normalized eddy appears when drifters are uninterruptedly entrained by eddies for more than 30 days. Moreover, the revolving channels of drifters in cyclonic eddies are relatively closer to the eddy center than those in anticyclonic eddies. These revolving channels suggest the principal mode of materials’ continuous motion processes that are inside eddies.

Extraction of Revolving Channels of Drifters around Mesoscale Eddy Centers Based on Spatiotemporal Trajectory Clustering