Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04745-y, published online 06 July 2017

This Article contains errors in Reference 36 which was incorrectly given as:

Schütte, F., Brandt, P. & Karstensen, J. Occurrence and characteristics of mesoscale eddies in the tropical northeast Atlantic Ocean. Ocean Sci. Discuss 12, 3043–3097 (2015).

The correct reference is listed below as ref. 1: