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The upper ocean is turbulent, in other words chaotic, because the Reynolds number is large. This chaos may include organized, so-called coherent structures.
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Soloviev, A., Lukas, R. (2006). SPATIALLY-VARYING AND COHERENT STRUCTURES. In: The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4053-9_5
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