Evidence of enhanced turbulent dissipation in the frontogenetic Kuroshio Front thermocline

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Nagai, Takeyoshi ^a   Tandon, Amit ^b   Yamazaki, Hidekatsu ^a   Doubell, Mark J ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAPYCNAL MIXING; EDDY DIFFUSIVITIES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FORWARD ENERGY; KUROSHIO; MESOSCALE; MICRO-SCALES; OCEAN FRONT; OPEN OCEAN; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SHARP CONTRAST; SMALL SCALE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TURBULENT DISSIPATION; TURBULENT MIXING; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

STREAM FLOW; TURBULENCE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BOUNDARY CURRENT; CYCLONE; DIFFUSIVITY; DISSIPATION; EDDY; FRONTOGENESIS; OCEANIC FRONT; OPEN OCEAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; THERMOCLINE; TURBULENT MIXING;

KUROSHIO REGION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 68749092135     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038832     Document Type: Article

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