Connections between the large-scale flow and turbulence in the Samoan Passage

Jesse Cusack1, Gunnar Voet1, Matthew H Alford1, James B Girton2, Glenn S Carter3, Lawrence J Pratt4, Shuwen Tan5, Kelly Pearson3 and Dimitris Menemenlis6, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qungdao, China, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States