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Thermohaline Convection with Two Stable Regimes of Flow
Article first published online: 18 MAR 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.2153-3490.1961.tb00079.x
1961 Blackwell Munksgaard
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STOMMEL, H. (1961), Thermohaline Convection with Two Stable Regimes of Flow. Tellus, 13: 224–230. doi: 10.1111/j.2153-3490.1961.tb00079.x
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- Issue published online: 18 MAR 2010
- Article first published online: 18 MAR 2010
- Manuscript received January 21, 1961
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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.