Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Mixing and Its Role in the Ocean
- 2 Thermodynamics and Seawater Properties
- 3 Turbulence
- 4 Double Diffusion
- 5 Sampling Mixing and Its Environment
- 6 Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
- 7 Interactions and Dissipation of Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
- 8 Mixing in the Stratified Interior
- Appendix A Mixing in the Stratified Interior
- Appendix B The GM79 Internal Wave Spectrum, Prepared with R.-C. Lien
- Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates
6 - Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Mixing and Its Role in the Ocean
- 2 Thermodynamics and Seawater Properties
- 3 Turbulence
- 4 Double Diffusion
- 5 Sampling Mixing and Its Environment
- 6 Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
- 7 Interactions and Dissipation of Internal Waves and the Vortical Mode
- 8 Mixing in the Stratified Interior
- Appendix A Mixing in the Stratified Interior
- Appendix B The GM79 Internal Wave Spectrum, Prepared with R.-C. Lien
- Bibliography
- Index
- Color Plates
Summary
After explaining the mechanism producing double diffusion, its representation analytically is developed and applied to linear stability analysis to determine conditions for double diffusion to occur. Laboratory observations of salt fingers are summarized.
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- Ocean Mixing , pp. 197 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021