R. Lien

Kuroshio-induced island wake instabilities and turbulent mixing from EM-APEX floats

Clusters of 6 to 9 EM-APEX profiling floats measured CTD, horizontal velocity and microstructure thermal variance during four deployments at the same locations in the Green Island wake induced by the Kuroshio. Large turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rates ε ∼ O (10 −7 – 10 −6 ) W/kg were observed in the...