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Patterson, M.D., Caulfield, C.P., McElwaine, J.N. and Dalziel, S.B. (2006). Time-dependent mixing in stratified Kelvin-Helmholtz billows: Experimental observations. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2006GL026949. issn: 0094-8276. |
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Quantitative time-dependent laboratory measurements are made of the irreversible mixing caused by the development, saturation and turbulent breakdown of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) billows in an initially stable two-layer stratified shear flow of miscible fluids. The measurements are obtained using a light attenuation technique. Irreversible mixing is found to be strongly dependent on the life-cycle of the flow, in particular the characteristics of large-scale, quasi-two-dimensional billow merging events, which stir the flow and then trigger mixing during turbulent transition. |
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Keywords
Oceanography, General, Analytical modeling and laboratory experiments, Oceanography, Physical, Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes, Oceanography, Physical, Upper ocean and mixed layer processes |
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Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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