Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Remote energy sources for mixing in the Indonesian Seas

  • Chengyuan Pang,
  • Maxim Nikurashin,
  • Beatriz Pena-Molino,
  • Bernadette M. Sloyan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34046-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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In addition to locally generated tidal mixing, remotely generated planetary (Kelvin and Rossby) waves and eddies are found to supply energy into the Indonesian Seas, sufficient to drive mixing in the upper ocean at rates inferred from observations.