Marine Hydrokinetic Energy from Western Boundary Currents

Intensified Diapycnal Mixing in the Midlatitude Western Boundary Currents

The wind work on oceanic near-inertial motions is suggested to play an important role in furnishing the diapycnal mixing in the deep ocean which affects the uptake of heat and carbon by the ocean as well as climate changes. However, it remains a puzzle where and through which route the near-inertial energy penetrates into the deep ocean. Using the measurements collected in the Kuroshio extensio...

Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents

Subtropical western boundary currents are warm, fast-flowing currents that form on the western side of ocean basins. They carry warm tropical water to the mid-latitudes and vent large amounts of heat and moisture to the atmosphere along their paths, affecting atmospheric jet streams and mid-latitude storms, as well as ocean carbon uptake1–4. The possibility that these highly energetic currents ...

Iodine monoxide in the Western Pacific marine boundary layer

A latitudinal cross-section and vertical profiles of iodine monoxide (IO) are reported from the marine boundary layer of the Western Pacific. The measurements were taken using Multi-Axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) during the TransBrom cruise of the German research vessel Sonne, which led from Tomakomai, Japan (42 N, 141 E) through the Western Pacific to Townsville, ...

From the western boundary currents to the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent: Modeled pathways and water mass evolutions

Numerical Simulation of a Cross Flow Marine Hydrokinetic Turbine

Numerical Simulation of a Cross Flow Marine Hydrokinetic Turbine.