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    Turbulence observations in a buoyant hydrothermal plume on the East Pacific Rise

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    Date
    2012-03
    Author
    Thurnherr, Andreas M.  Concept link
    St. Laurent, Louis C.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5173
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.15
    DOI
    10.5670/oceanog.2012.15
    Abstract
    Hot vent fluid enters the ocean at high-temperature hydrothermal vents, also known as black smokers. Because of the large temperature difference between the vent fluid and oceanic near-bottom waters, the hydrothermal effluent initially rises as a buoyant plume through the water column. During its rise, the plume engulfs and mixes with background ocean water. This process, called entrainment, gradually reduces the density of the rising plume until it reaches its level of neutral buoyancy, where the plume density equals that of the background water, and it begins to spread along a surface of constant density.
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    Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 25, no. 1 (2012): 180–181, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2012.15.
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    Oceanography 25, no. 1 (2012): 180–181
     
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