Observations of the structure of turbulent mixing across the Kuroshio

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Kaneko, Hitoshi ^a   Yasuda, Ichiro ^a   Komatsu, Kosei ^a   Itoh, Sachihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN CURRENTS;

COMPOSITING; DEPTH RANGE; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; KUROSHIO; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENT ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; TURBULENT MIXING; VERTICAL DIFFUSIVITY; VERTICAL SHEAR;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANTICYCLONE; CYCLONE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MICROSTRUCTURE; OCEANIC FRONT; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT MIXING;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84864685073     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052419     Document Type: Article

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