Un-mixing the Ocean: Double Diffusion and Turbulence in Polar Oceans

• Main Author: Middleton, Leo
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cambridge 2022
• Subjects: Turbulence; Polar Oceans; Mixing; Double Diffusion; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; George VI Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Chukchi; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334850; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.82287

This thesis concerns theory, numerical simulations and observations of double-diffusion in polar settings. Double diffusion refers to processes occurring due to the difference in molecular diffusivities between two components that both contribute to the density. Specifically, these processes occur i...