Cooling, dilution and mixing of ocean water by free-drifting icebergs in the Weddell Sea. Deep- Sea Res. II 58, 1346-1363.Helly, J.J., Kaufmann, R.S., Stephenson, G.R., Vernet, M., Cooling, dilution and mixing of ocean water by free-drifting icebergs in the Weddell Sea. Deep-...
Measurements from a robotic underwater vehicle reveal the impacts of meltwater from the giant iceberg A-68A on the properties of the surrounding Southern Ocean. In addition to increasing surface stratification and mid-depth vertical mixing, the meltwater impacts primary productivity, with direct and ...
ARTICLE https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10149-5 OPEN Deep-ocean mixing driven by small-scale internal tides Clément Vic1,8, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato1, J.A. Mattias Green2, Amy F. Waterhouse 3, Zhongxiang Zhao4, Angélique Melet5, Casimir de Lavergne6, Maarten C. Buijsman 7 ...
upper ocean mixing processes determine whether water warmed at the surface on a sunny afternoon remains available to warm the atmosphere that evening, or mixes deeper into the ocean not to emerge for many years. Quantification of the rates at which these happen is critical to our predictions of...
Small crystal sizes allowed not more than four analyses per olivine grain (Supplementary Table S4). The data underlines, that monovalent ions are moderately to highly incompatible in olivine (Fig. 2d). Dol−melt of divalent ions scatter across up to more than one magnitude between the ...
the CMIP5 simulations during 1950–2015 (medium confidence). This significant decline in phytoplankton is attributed to enhanced stratification of the oceanic water column as a result of rapid surface warming, thereby suppressing the mixing of nutrients from subsurface layers into the surface. Downward...
In 2011, a nuclear crisis not seen since Chernobyl in 1988 was triggered by a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami knocking out the Fukushima Daiichi plant's key cooling functions. Since then, water pumped in to cool melted reactor fuel has been accumulating at the complex and mixing with...
BSBW is formed by the transformation of North Atlantic waters during its passage through the Barents Sea due to cooling and mixing with shelf waters and brine, rejected during sea ice formation10,13. Water mass definition was based on this transformation: after leaving the shelf system BSBW nor...
Under global warming, atmospheric heat transport (AHT) is expected to increase, as warmer air can hold more water vapour enhancing latent heat transport7. Simultaneous OHT changes have an opposing, weakening response, which is not evident from first principles8. When OHU is neglected, OHT and AH...
This general decrease likely reflects recirculation and mixing influenced by the marked basin and ridge topography (Fig. 4.1). 4.3.3.3. Atlantic deep western boundary current The prime source for the Atlantic DWBC is the Weddell Sea. Because of its high density, most Weddell Sea Bottom Water (...