Thermohaline Convection with Two Stable Regimes of Flow

Henry Stommel

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Abstract

Free convection between two interconnected reservoirs, due to density differences maintained by heat and salt transfer to the reservoirs, is shown to occur sometimes in two different stable regimes, and may possibly be analogous to certain features of the oseanic circulation.

Journal: Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Publisher: Stockholm University Press

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