Formation and decay of a deep convective chimney

• Published in: Ocean Modelling
• Main Authors: Kovalevsky, D., Bashmachnikov, I., Alekseev, G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Greenland; The Chimney; Greenland Sea
• Online Access: https://publications.hereon.de/id/38488; https://publications.hzg.de/id/38488; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101583

Open-ocean deep convection (DC), forming a link between the upper and the deep ocean dynamics, is observed in a few localized sites of the World Ocean. In the present paper, we further develop an analytical model of isolated vertically homogenized water columns, up to a few kilometers deep, usually...