Abstract: Malmberg's salinity criterion for the inhibition of oceanic deep convection is extended here to account for increases in salinity caused by evaporation brine rejection, and mixed-layer deepening. Roughly speaking, accounting ...

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Abstract: A laterally averaged nonhydrostatic model for stratified flow in dynamically narrow domains is presented. Averaging laterally yields the computational efficiency of a two-dimensional model, while retaining some effects ...

Abstract: Although ocean fronts are often baroclinic, existing models of double-diffusive interleaving have ignored such baroclinic effects as velocity shear and horizontal density gradients. To determine the importance of these ...

Abstract: The authors propose a scheme to test whether inversions in CTD density profiles are caused by overturning motions (from which mixing rates may be inferred) or by measurement noise. Following a common practice, possible ...

Abstract: The vertical diffusivity KV in the upper half-kilometer of the North Pacific subtropical pycnocline is estimated from observations of the spreading rate of anthropogenic tritium. The calculation is based on approximately ...