A model of the evolution of vertical thermohaline inhomogeneities of an oceanic thermocline taking into account the effects of double diffusion |
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| Authors: | I N Okhotnikov |
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| Institution: | (1) Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK |
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| Abstract: | We construct a numerical model of the evolution of the structure of an oceanic thermocline in the presence of “salt-finger”
convection. The model explains the formation of a piecewise homogeneous vertical structure of the temperature and salinity
fields in the ocean.
Translated by Peter V. Malyshev and Dmitry V. Malyshev |
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