Salt fingering is a double-diffusive mixing process in which the saltier of two adjacent water masses diffuses downward more rapidly than heat, generating finger-like vertical intrusions that enhance vertical salt transport while minimizing heat transfer in thermally stable, salt-stratified oceanic layers.
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Collective instability of salt fingers
Melvin E. Stern · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1969 · 197 citations
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