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: Scaling analysis of the oceanic thermohaline circulation has been done under two types of surface boundary conditions: (i) Under ?relaxation? conditions (sea surface temperature and salinity are relaxed to prescribed ...

Abstract: The effect of double-diffusive mixing on the general circulation is explored using the GFDL MOM2 model. The motivation for this comes from the known sensitivity of the thermohaline circulation to the vertical diffusivity ...