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Fine structure of the temperature field and the transfrontal exchange in the East Kamchatka current

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CTD data are used to study the relationship between the temperature field fine structure and the location of the frontal zones and synoptic eddies in the region adjacent to the eastern coast of the Kamchatka peninsula. High levels of fine structure activity were observed in the frontal zone of the East Kamchatka current and in the peripheries of anticyclonic eddies. Estimates of the coefficient of the horizontal turbulent exchange and the transfrontal (lateral) heat flux are derived.

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  1. I. A. Zhabin
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  2. V. P. Tapinov
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  3. G. I. Yurasov
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Translated by Mikhail M. Trufanov.

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Zhabin, I.A., Tapinov, V.P. & Yurasov, G.I. Fine structure of the temperature field and the transfrontal exchange in the East Kamchatka current. Phys. Oceanogr. 4, 81–84 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197101

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