Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Latitude-dependent finescale turbulent shear generations in the Pacific tropical-extratropical upper ocean

  • Zhiwei Zhang,
  • Bo Qiu,
  • Jiwei Tian,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Xiaodong Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06260-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Turbulent mixing is critically important for ocean circulation, but their latitudinal distribution are poorly known. Here, the authors show that the generation mechanism of the W-shaped distribution of turbulent mixing in the tropical-extratropical Pacific is latitude dependent.