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Turbulence and high-frequency variability in a deep gravity current outflow

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  • Intensive sampling of the deep Mediterranean outflow 70 km W of the Strait of Gibraltar reveals a strong, tidally modulated gravity current embedded with large-amplitude oscillations and energetic turbulence. The flow appears to be hydraulically controlled at a small topographic constriction, with turbulence and internal waves varying together and increasing dramatically downstream of the choke point. These data suggest that a significant fraction of energy dissipation, mixing, and entrainment stress in gravity currents may occur in localized regions controlled by time-varying flow interactions with fine-scale topography. These findings highlight the important role of processes that are not resolved by global climate models (GCMs), which do not contain tides or mixing due to fine-scale topographic interactions.
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  • Nash, J. D., H. Peters, S. M. Kelly, J. L. Pelegrí, M. Emelianov, and M. Gasser (2012), Turbulence and high-frequency variability in a deep gravity current outflow, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L18611, doi:10.1029/2012GL052899.
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  • 39
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  • This work was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, grants OCE-0825287, OCE-0825297, and the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, grants CTM2008-06438-C02-01 and CTM2008-03422-E/MAR.
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