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    How entraining density currents influence the stratification in a one-dimensional ocean basin

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    2005-11-03
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    Wåhlin, A. K.  Concept link
    Cenedese, Claudia  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/897
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    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.10.019
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     Overflows; Plumes; Mixing parameterization; Ekman transport; Advective-diffusive balance; Filling box models 
    Abstract
    The sensitivity of the basin-scale ocean stratification to the vertical distribution of plume entrainment is being analyzed. A large ocean basin supplied by dense water from an adjoining marginal sea is considered. The dense water flows into the ocean basin as an entraining density current and interleaves at the bottom (or at the level of neutral density), where it deposits a mixture of marginal seaand basin water. As the basin water, i.e. 'old' plume water, is entrained and re-circulated in the plume a stratification develops in the basin. The mixture deposited at the bottom hence contains an increasing fraction of marginal sea water, and the basin density increases with depth as well as with time. A stationary solution in which diffusion of buoyancy from above is important is approached asymptotically in time. Non-diffusive solutions to the initial transient adjustment, as well as the diffusive asymptotic state, have been studied in four different parameterizations of plume entrainment. It is shown that in the transient regime the basin stratification and plume density are highly sensitive to how mixing is parameterized. The stationary diffusive solution that is approached asymptotically in time is less sensitive to parameterization but depends strongly on basin topography, source water density, and buoyancy flux at the surface.
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    Author Posting. © The Authors, 2005. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 53 (2006): 172-193, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.10.019.
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    Preprint: Wåhlin, A. K., Cenedese, Claudia, "How entraining density currents influence the stratification in a one-dimensional ocean basin", 2005-11-03, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.10.019, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/897
     
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