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Liu, T., Abernathey, R., Sinha, A., & Chen, D. (2019). Quantifying eulerian eddy leakiness in an idealized model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124, 8869– 8886. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015576

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JC015576

This gives a critique of Eulerian eddy tracking methods from the point of view of transport studies.