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DOI10.1017/JFM.2011.468MaRDI QIDQ3167903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Raymond W. Schmitt

Publication date 29 October 2012

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2011.468

zbMATH Keywords

double diffusive convectioninstabilityocean processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convection in hydrodynamic stability (76E06) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Diffusion (76R50) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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