Strong vertical mixing in the Urup Strait

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Itoh, Sachihiko ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a   Yagi, Masahiro ^a   Osafune, Satoshi ^a   Kaneko, Hitoshi ^a   Nishioka, Jun ^b   Nakatsuka, Takeshi ^c   Volkov, Yuri N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION;

HOMOGENEOUS LAYERS; MICROSTRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS; POTENTIAL DENSITY; STRONG-MIXING; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TURBULENT ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMNS;

WATER INJECTION;

DISSIPATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GYRE; HOMOGENEITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMN;

KHABAROVSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; KURIL ISLANDS; OKHOTSK; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; URUP STRAIT;

EID: 80052211272     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048507     Document Type: Article

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