Abyssal Upwelling and Downwelling Driven by Near-Boundary Mixing

A buoyancy and volume budget analysis of bottom-intensified mixing in the abyssal ocean reveals simple expressions for the strong upwelling in very thin continental boundary layers and the interior near-boundary downwelling in the stratified ocean interior. For a given amount of Antarctic Bottom Wat...

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Main Authors: McDougall, Trevor J. (Author), Ferrari, Raffaele (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Meteorological Society, 2017-09-13T15:53:39Z.
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