Turning Ocean Mixing Upside Down

It is generally understood that small-scale mixing, such as is caused by breaking internal waves, drives upwelling of the densest ocean waters that sink to the ocean bottom at high latitudes. However, the observational evidence that the strong turbulent fluxes generated by small-scale mixing in the...

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Main Authors: McDougall, Trevor J. (Author), Nikurashin, Maxim (Author), Ferrari, Raffaele (Contributor), Mashayekhi, Alireza (Contributor), Campin, Jean-Michel (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society, 2017-02-10T18:51:03Z.
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