Correction to: Ocean Dynamics (2018) 68:957–965

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-018-1177-1

The original version of this article unfortunately contained mistakes. An incorrect name was used in the funding information and two references were missed, Munk and Wunsch 1998 and Oster and Yamamoto 1963. The correct funding information and the two missing references are given below.

Funding information This work was supported by the National Program on Global Change and Air-Sea Interaction (project GASI-IPOVAI-04) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, project 41476001 and 41506007).

Omitted references in the list:

Munk W, Wunsch C (1998) Abyssal recipes II: Energetic of tidal and wind mixing, Deep Sea Research, Part I, 45, 1977–2010.

Oster G, Yamamoto M (1963) Density gradient techniques. Chemical Reviews, 63(3), 257-268.