Observational evidence of diapycnal upwelling within a sloping submarine canyon

• Main Authors: Wynne-Cattanach, Bethan, Alford, Matthew, Couto, Nicole, Drake, Henri, Ferrari, Raffaele, Boyer, Arnaud Le, Mercier, Herle, Messias, Marie-Jose, Garabato, Alberto Naveira, Polzin, Kurt, Ruan, Xiaozhou, Spingys, Carl, van Haren, Hans, Voet, Gunnar
• Other Authors: Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), University College of London London (UCL), Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Exeter, National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOC), University of Southampton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Munk; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04299678; https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3459062/v1

Abstract Small-scale turbulent mixing drives the upwelling of deep water masses in the abyssal ocean as part of the global overturning circulation (Wunsch & Ferrari 2004). However, the processes leading to mixing and the pathways through which this upwelling occurs remain insufficiently understo...