Examine the energy sources of ocean mixing by comparing its spatial distribution with results of baroclinic tide models

Could we investigate the energy sources of ocean mixing by comparing the figures of baroclinic tides (Egbert and Ray, 2000) with figures of eddy diffusivity from Kunze et al. (2006). It seems to me that they match each other quite well. Several unmatched hot- spots could be due to other processes, such as wind-generate near-inertial oscillation or lee waves generated by interactions between strong currents or strong eddies with topography.