Abstract: he oceanic buoyancy sinks from thermobaricity and cabbeling are quantified using hydrography and parameterized diffusive fluxes of heat and salt. A novelty in this study is that the effect of spatially varying diffusivities ...

Abstract: he nonlinear equation of state of seawater introduces a sink or source of buoyancy when water parcels of unequal salinities and temperatures are mixed. This article contains quantitative estimates of these nonlinear effects ...

Abstract: he problem of finding the state of minimum potential energy through the rearrangement of water parcels with a nonlinear equation of state is discussed in the context of a combinatorial optimization problem. It is found ...

Abstract: he steady-state energy and thermal variance budgets form the basis for most current methods for evaluating turbulent fluxes of buoyancy, heat, and salinity. This study derives these budgets for a double-diffusive staircase ...

Abstract: his article presents a new framework for studying water mass transformations in salinity?temperature space that can, with equal ease, be applied to study water mass transformation in spaces defined by any two conservative ...

Abstract: n this paper, water mass transformations in the Arctic Ocean are studied using a recently developed salinity?temperature (S?T) framework. The framework allows the water mass transformations to be succinctly quantified by ...

Abstract: The role of oceanic background diapycnal diffusion for the equilibrium climate state is investigated in the global coupled climate model CM2G. Special emphasis is put on the oceanic meridional overturning and heat transport. ...