Abstract: Ingham (1966) reported that the temperature-salinity relationships in the Central Waters were much better described by a curve of constant density ratio (R? = α?T/??S) than by a straight line. His result is quantitatively ...

Abstract: Over a century before Melvin Stern discovered salt fingers, W. Stanley Jevons performed the first salt finger experiment in an attempt to model cirrus clouds. Remarkably, he seemed to realize that a more rapid diffusion ...

Abstract: An equation for the conservation of density ratio on isopycnal surfaces is derived. It is shown that a vertical shear can modify the density ratio if salinity (and temperature) gradients exist along isopycnals. The mixing ...

Abstract: The impact of salt fingers on the thermohaline circulation in a single hemisphere basin under mixed boundary conditions is investigated through scaling analysis and numerical experiments. By assuming that the internal ...

Abstract: wing to the larger thermal expansion coefficient at higher temperatures, more buoyancy is put into the ocean by heating than is removed by cooling at low temperatures. The authors show that, even with globally balanced ...

Abstract: The North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment (NATRE) was performed in an area moderately favorable to salt fingers. However, the classic finger signature of a distinct thermohaline staircase caused by upgradient density ...

Abstract: he global water cycle is predicted to intensify under various greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. Here the nature and strength of the expected changes for the ocean in the coming century are assessed by examining the output ...

Abstract: Continuous conductivity-temperature-depth-dissolved-oxygen (CTD) data are used to investigate the spatial distribution of fine and microstructure between the Azores and Flemish Cap. The CTD data are used to calculate a ...

Abstract: The averaged hydrography of Levitus has been used to form maps of various quantities that contribute to dianeutral advecion in the Pacific thermocline. On much of the ?26.50? neutral surface cabbeling and thermobaricity ...

Abstract: Fine- and microstructure data from a free fall profiler are analysed to test models that relate the turbulent dissipation rate (?) to characteristics of the internal wave field. The data were obtained from several distinct ...