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Topographically Induced Mixing Around a Shallow Seamount

Published:1997-06-20 Issue:5320 Volume:276 Page:1831-1833
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Lueck Rolf G.¹,Mudge Todd D.¹

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Earth and Ocean Research, University of Victoria, Post Office Box 1700, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 2Y2, Canada.

Abstract

Measurements of the rate of dissipation of kinetic energy around a shallow seamount in the eastern North Pacific show that mixing there is 100 to 10,000 times as large as that far away from the seamount. If such values are typical of other seamounts, mixing across density surfaces in the ocean occurs mainly at their boundaries, and topographically induced mixing may help to explain the discrepancy between the observed intensity of mixing in the interior of the oceans and that required to satisfy models of ocean circulation.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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