Confidential manuscript submitted to Progress in Oceanography Global Observations of Submesoscale Coherent Vortices in the 1 Ocean 2 Daniel McCoy 1 , Daniele Bianchi 1 , Andrew L. Stewart 1 3 1 Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 4 1 University of California – Los Angeles 5 1 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 6 Keywords— Argo floats, Mesoscale eddies, Ocean transport, Water masses, Volume transport, 7 Water mixing 8 Corresponding author: Daniel McCoy, demccoy@atmos.ucla.edu –1–