Fig. 3: Near inertial wave event near 11.5°N, 23°W during September 2015. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Near inertial wave event near 11.5°N, 23°W during September 2015.

From: Surface cooling caused by rare but intense near-inertial wave induced mixing in the tropical Atlantic

Fig. 3

Data from the vessel-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (vmADCP) from top to bottom: a current vectors from the first vmADCP bin (13–21 m depth), b zonal velocity (u), c meridional velocity (v), and d squared vertical shear of horizontal velocities (Sh2). Microstructure profiler observations acquired between September 13, 10:00 UTC and September 14, 06:00 UTC, from top to bottom: e salinity (S), f squared buoyancy frequency (N2), g dissipation rates of turbulent kinetic energy (ε), and h 8m-Ri number (Ri). On all panels times of microstructure profiles are indicated with light red diamonds, whereas two specific profiles are highlighted in red/magenta and shown in detail in Fig. 4. Color-coding in a corresponds to time after first considered vmADCP observation for better visibility of the individual current vectors. Black and white dashed line in e–h denotes the mixed layer depth.

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