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Título: Microstructure turbulence and diffusivity parameterization in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans during the Malaspina 2010 expedition
Autores/as: Fernández-Castro, B.
Mouriño-Carballido, B.
Benítez-Barrios, V. M.
Chouciño, P.
Fraile Nuez,Eugenio 
Graña, R.
Piedeleu, M.
Rodríguez-Santana, A. 
Clasificación UNESCO: 251007 Oceanografía física
Palabras clave: Microstructure turbulence
Tropical and subtropical oceans
Diffusivity
K-profile parameterization
Salt fingers
Fecha de publicación: 2014
Editor/a: 0967-0637
Proyectos: Modelo Físico-Químico Para la Región Macaronesica. Evaluación y Potencial Aplicación Aperacional 
Publicación seriada: Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 
Resumen: Measurements of microstructure turbulence were carried out, in the upper 300 m, in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic and Pacific oceans during the Malaspina 2010 expedition, by using a microstructure turbulence (MSS) profiler. Diapycnal diffusivity () was estimated from dissipation rates of turbulent kinetic energy (ε) measured by the MSS profiler, and also from hydrographic and meteorological data by using the K-profile parameterization (KPP). In the mixing layer, averaged () and ε () were three and one orders of magnitude higher, respectively, compared to the ocean interior ( and ). In general, the KPP showed a good agreement with diffusivity estimates derived from microstructure observations, both in the mixing layer and in the ocean interior. The KPP also reproduced the main regional patterns observed in the ocean interior. The analysis of turbulence generation mechanisms below the mixing layer showed that shear-induced mixing was more important in those regions influenced by the equatorial undercurrent, where averaged diffusivity was . Favorable conditions for salt fingers formation were more frequently observed in the Atlantic, where, as a consequence of this process, diffusivity could increase up to 20%. This result could have important implications for the transport of heat and dissolved substances in these regions.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/46711
ISSN: 0967-0637
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2014.08.006
Fuente: Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers [ISSN 0967-0637], v. 94, p. 15-30
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