Multifractal thermal characteristics of the southwestern GIN Sea upper layer
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Chu, Peter C.
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2004
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2004
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Multifractal characteristics of the upper layer thermal structure in the southwestern Greenland Sea, Iceland Sea, and
Norwegian Sea (GIN Sea) are analyzed using high-resolution, digital thermistor chain data. The energy spectrum at 20
m depth (cold sublayer) shows the existence of a spike at the scale of approximate 3 km representing the chimney scale.
The graph dimension varies from higher values such as 1.89 at the surface to 1.44–1.50 in the warm intermediate layer.
The stationarity decreases from the ocean surface to the warm intermediate layer. However, the information dimension
varies slightly (0.92 to 0.90) that indicates low singularity.
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The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0960-0779(03)00041-9
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Oceanography
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Chu, P.C., 2004: Multifractal thermal characteristics of the southwestern GIN Sea upper layer (paper download), Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 19, 275-284.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.