Distribution of fine-scale shear in the deep waters of the North Pacific obtained using expendable current profilers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Nagasawa, Maki ^a   Hibiya, Toshiyuki ^a   Niwa, Yoshihiro ^a   Watanabe, Michio ^a   Isoda, Yutaka ^b   Takagi, Shogo ^b   Kamei, Yoshihiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VELOCITY; DEEP WATER; ENERGY DISSIPATION; WAVE SPECTRUM;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0012372465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001376     Document Type: Article

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