Salt Fingers Observed in the Mediterranean Outflow
- 13 September 1974
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 185 (4155) , 941-943
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.185.4155.941
Abstract
Salt fingers, convection cells which constitute a possible mixing mechanism of the ocean, have now been observed in the Mediterranean outflow. The fingers, 6 millimeters in diamneter and 24 centimeters long, were photographed below the salinity maximum of the outflow, in an interface 22 centimeters thick where temperature and salinity decreased O. 15°C and 0.03 per mil, respectively.Keywords
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