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Schmitz et al. 1987
Schmitz, W.J., Niiler, P.P. and Koblinsky, C.J. (1987). Two-year moored instrument results along 152¿°E. Journal of Geophysical Research 92: doi: 10.1029/JC080i010p10826. issn: 0148-0227.

Results from a 2-year (nominal) deployment of a moored array along 152 ¿E from 28 ¿N to 41 ¿N are presented, with emphasis on similarities and differences between settings (approximately year-to-year). Ten moorings and 38 instruments were involved, from the fall of 1980 to 1982. Current-temperature meters spanned the water column from 500- to 4000-m depths, with occasional instruments in the vicinity of 300 m and near the bottom (~6000 m). Upper level features located in the center of the array near 35¿--36¿N were generally stable relative to the axis of the Kuroshio Extension, varying from deployment to deployment with meanders in this flow regime. Some properties of the abyssal (~ 4000 m) currents were comparatively more variable, with these changes not connected to meandering of the Kuroshio Extension in an obvious way. The vertical structure and frequency distributions of eddy kinetic energy were similar in shape and to some extent in amplitude from deployment to deployment, especially relative to meanders of the Kuroshio Extension, but translated in the opposite direction. ¿American Geophysical Union 1987

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