Fig. 6: Relation between observed dissipation rate and potential vorticity and Richardson number. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 6: Relation between observed dissipation rate and potential vorticity and Richardson number.

From: The Kuroshio flowing over seamounts and associated submesoscale flows drive 100-km-wide 100-1000-fold enhancement of turbulence

Fig. 6

a Average dissipation rates as a function of potential vorticity (PV2D) and Thomas angle34 Φ. b Average dissipation rates as a function of potential vorticity (PV2D) and ADCP Richardson number. (c) Average dissipation rate as a function of potential vorticity (10–8 m–1 s–1) and d ADCP Richardson number. Error bar shows 95% confidence interval obtained by the bootstrap method. The average is not shown for the data with only one sample in (c, d).

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