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Average profiles of turbulent dissipation rates provide tests of parameterizations used in numerical models. A strong diurnal mixing cycle is found in the well-stratified high-shear zone above the velocity maximum, and thermohaline intrusions are shown to be important mixing agents below the velocity maximum.
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Gregg, M., Peters, H., Wesson, J. et al. Intensive measurements of turbulence and shear in the equatorial undercurrent. Nature 318, 140–144 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/318140a0
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