The main results of this study can be summarized as: An asymmetry between cyclonic cold vortices and anticyclonic warm filaments characterizes the surface semi-geostrophic turbulence. The ageostrophic component strengthens the forward potential energy cascade by exciting warm filaments but suppresses the inverse kinetic energy cascade by preventing cyclone mergers. Horizontal diffusion transforms from a hyper-ballistic regime at small scales to a normal diffusion regime at large scales.

This dataset contains the Matlab figures, scripts, and .mat data files used in the paper "Energy cascades in surface semi-geostrophic turbulence" to be submitted to JGR-Oceans. "Figures?.fig" are the matlab figures, where "?" is a integer varying from 1-9. "Figures?.m" is the matlab script which loads the "Figure?.mat" data to create "Figure?.fig" figure.