Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Mixing and Its Role in the Ocean
- 2 Thermodynamics and Seawater Properties
- 3 Turbulence
- 4 Double Diffusion
- 5 Sampling Mixing and Its Environment
- 6 Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
- 7 Interactions and Dissipation of Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
- 8 Mixing in the Stratified Interior
- Appendix A Mixing in the Stratified Interior
- Appendix B The GM79 Internal Wave Spectrum, Prepared with R.-C. Lien
- Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates
8 - Mixing in the Stratified Interior
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Mixing and Its Role in the Ocean
- 2 Thermodynamics and Seawater Properties
- 3 Turbulence
- 4 Double Diffusion
- 5 Sampling Mixing and Its Environment
- 6 Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
- 7 Interactions and Dissipation of Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
- 8 Mixing in the Stratified Interior
- Appendix A Mixing in the Stratified Interior
- Appendix B The GM79 Internal Wave Spectrum, Prepared with R.-C. Lien
- Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates
Summary
The last chapter combines themes from earlier chapters to summarize what has been learned about mixing in the stratified ocean. The nature of finestructure is explored first, as it contains signatures of the processes producing the mixing, as well as modulating the development of turbulent patches. After exploring how patches are identified, their characteristics are discussed. Evidence for the other major mixing process, double diffusion, is presented, principally as signatures in horizontal tows. The chapter concludes with summaries of mixing in three important regions differing from the open ocean pycnocline: the Southern Ocean, the Arctic, and ocean ridges.
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- Ocean Mixing , pp. 283 - 320Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021