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  • 8 - Mixing in the Stratified Interior

  • Michael C. Gregg, University of Washington
  • Book:
    Ocean Mixing
    Published online:
    10 March 2021
    Print publication:
    04 February 2021, pp 283-320

  • 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.