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      Impact of a Mean Current on the Internal Tide Energy Dissipation at the Critical Latitude

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      Journal of Physical Oceanography
      American Meteorological Society

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              Evidence for enhanced mixing over rough topography in the abyssal ocean

              The overturning circulation of the ocean plays an important role in modulating the Earth's climate. But whereas the mechanisms for the vertical transport of water into the deep ocean--deep water formation at high latitudes--and horizontal transport in ocean currents have been largely identified, it is not clear how the compensating vertical transport of water from the depths to the surface is accomplished. Turbulent mixing across surfaces of constant density is the only viable mechanism for reducing the density of the water and enabling it to rise. However, measurements of the internal wave field, the main source of energy for mixing, and of turbulent dissipation rates, have typically implied diffusivities across surfaces of equal density of only approximately 0.1 cm2 s(-1), too small to account for the return flow. Here we report measurements of tracer dispersion and turbulent energy dissipation in the Brazil basin that reveal diffusivities of 2-4 cm2 s(-1) at a depth of 500 m above abyssal hills on the flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and approximately 10 cm2 s(-1) nearer the bottom. This amount of mixing, probably driven by breaking internal waves that are generated by tidal currents flowing over the rough bathymetry, may be large enough to close the buoyancy budget for the Brazil basin and suggests a mechanism for closing the global overturning circulation.
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                Journal
                Journal of Physical Oceanography
                J. Phys. Oceanogr.
                American Meteorological Society
                0022-3670
                1520-0485
                June 2017
                June 2017
                : 47
                : 6
                : 1457-1472
                Affiliations
                [1 ]LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
                Article
                10.1175/JPO-D-16-0197.1
                cffd9407-7b77-44f2-9807-c3b7b30e1893
                © 2017

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