Experiments Reveal How Heat Is Mixed into Cold Dense Water in the Abyssal Ocean

If the world's oceans relied only on molecular diffusion and smooth laminar flow to spread the Sun's heat, they'd consist of a thin Sun-warmed layer atop a mass of icy water. But other transport mechanisms are at work. In the North Atlantic, for instance, wind-driven currents push war...

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Published in:Physics Today
Main Author: Day, Charles
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing 2000
Subjects:
General Physics and Astronomy
Arctic
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.883015
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