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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Salt-fingers"”.
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Investigation into the feasibility of detecting salt fingers optically
… interest in discovering the existance of salt fingering in the ocean. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the feasibility of optically detecting salt fingers. Theoretical calculations were conducted on the angular deviation and displacement of parallel light rays propagating …
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Shear Effects on Buoyancy-Generated Turbulence and Salt Fingers
… current are applied to study turbulence in a salt finger favorable flow. The theory reproduces well previous observations for unsheared flow, and it predicts that heat can be transported more efficiently than salt, even in salt finger favorable conditions. Effects of shear on the flux ratio …
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Finestructure and turbulence in the deep ocean
… structure, called bands, are identified as salt fingers, while others with chaotic structure are turbulent. Images are found on interfaces that are 1-10m thick and have gradients at least several times the mean. From 6 profiles in the Mediterranean Outflow region of the eastern North …
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Oceanic microstructure observed near Bermuda using a towed sensor
… the formation of mixed layers in the ocean; the salt finger type of double-diffusive convection, in particular, has received much attention. Because of their uniquely ordered nature, salt fingers should be readily identifiable in the deep thermocline, if in fact they exist there. A relatively …
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The effect of double diffusion on the dynamics of turbulent plumes and jets
… rate of entrainment in turbulent plumes in the salt-fingering configuration. Plumes over a range of source buoyancy fluxes B0 and source density ratios Rρ are examined experimentally using two experimental methods. The first method is based on the filling-box technique introduced by Baines …
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Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers
… record. Such staircases are the result of strong salt fingering at the interfaces between the mixed layers, and these data provide unique insights into the dynamics of salt fingers. In particular, a striking linear correlation between the temperature and salinity of the layers may be interpreted …
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Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers
… record. Such staircases are the result of strong salt fingering at the interfaces between the mixed layers, and these data provide unique insights into the dynamics of salt fingers. In particular, a striking linear correlation between the temperature and salinity of the layers may be interpreted …
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Shear of small vertical scale observed in the permanent oceanic thermocline
… internal waves or interleaving layers or salt-driven convection. The second experiment used sensor pairs to measure shear, temperature gradient, and salinity gradient with three meter vertical spacing. A weak but significant negative correlation between shear magnitude and density gradient …