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Science 1 May 1981:
Vol. 212. no. 4494, pp. 539 - 540
DOI: 10.1126/science.212.4494.539
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Control of Equatorial Ocean Currents by Turbulent Dissipation

WILLIAM R. CRAWFORD 1 and THOMAS R. OSBORN 2

1 Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada V8L 4B2
2 Department of Oceanography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1W5

The importance of turbulence in the flow of equatorial currents has been noted by modelers but not observed. Recent measurements of turbulence show an increase in strength at the equator and confirm its role as a sink of the kinetic energy of currents at the equator.

Submitted on October 30, 1980
Revised on January 7, 1981


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Local Influences on Shear-Flow Turbulence in the Equatorial Ocean.
J. N. MOUM and D. R. CALDWELL (1985)
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