Benthic fronts and global excess radon distribution

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Aug 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983gapfd..25..309l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, vol. 25, Issue 4, pp.309-315

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GEOSECS measurements of excess radon 222 as a function of depth above the sediments in the Atlantic and Pacific are sufficient to resolve the median profile in each ocean, but not the mean profile. The transport process maintaining the oceanic means is highly intermittent, and is not consistent with mixing by small scale turbulence generated at the ocean bottom. We suggest that transport of radon above the benthic boundary layer is driven by isopycnal motions associated with baroclinic instabilities on benthic fronts. A method for generating benthic fronts together with the subsequent instabilities is demonstrated in the laboratory.

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