Vertical mixing and elements of mesoscale dynamics over North Carolina shelf and contiguous Gulf Stream waters

Iossif Lozovatsky1, Jesús Planella-Morato2, Kipp Shearman3, Qing Wang4, Harindra J. S. Fernando5
1Department of Civil- and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
3College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
4[Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA]
5Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA

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