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Near-slope turbulence in a Rockall canyon
van Haren, H.; Voet, G.; Alford, M.H.; Fernández Castro, B.; Naveira Garabato, A.C.; Wynne-Cattanach, B.L.; Mercier, H.; Messias, M.-J. (2024). Near-slope turbulence in a Rockall canyon. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 206: 104277. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104277
In: Deep-Sea Research, Part I. Oceanographic Research Papers. Elsevier: Oxford. ISSN 0967-0637; e-ISSN 1879-0119, meer
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Author keywords

    Steep rockall canyon slope; 103 high-resolution temperature sensors moored between [0.9 152]m; Turbulence values increase towards seafloor; Dominant convection in lower 5 m


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  • van Haren, H., meer
  • Voet, G.
  • Alford, M.H.
  • Fernández Castro, B.
  • Naveira Garabato, A.C.
  • Wynne-Cattanach, B.L.
  • Mercier, H.
  • Messias, M.-J.

Abstract
    The acknowledgement of the importance of small-scale turbulent mixing for the redistribution of heat, nutrients and suspended matter in the ocean has led to renewed interest in the breaking of internal waves at underwater topography. This follows from observations that turbulence intensity increases from the ocean interior to the seafloor. As two-dimensional models require reduction of turbulent buoyancy flux in the vicinity of the seafloor to allow for up-welling flows, the question is how thin such a layer of reduced turbulence above the seafloor can be. From an observational study in this subject, we present 400-day moored high-resolution temperature measurements in a Rockall canyon between 0.9 < h < 152 m from the steeply sloping thalweg-seafloor. In the area, Thorpe-scale calculated turbulence dissipation rate is predominantly governed by the breaking of semidiurnal internal tides. Tidal-mean turbulence profiles increase with depth, together with inertial-subrange temperature-variance. A distinct further increase in turbulence is found for the lower 4 m across which inertial-subrange temperature variance decreased. This was observed during most of a tidal phase, except during the warming phase, when a decrease in turbulence was found in the lower few meters. The thin layer above the seafloor showed a distinct change in distribution of small-scale stratification and a transition from little inertial-subrange variance at h = 0.9 m, via dominant convection-turbulence at h < 5 m to dominant shear-turbulence at h > 30 m, as established from spectral information. The lack of an observed mean near-seafloor buoyancy-flux reduction is hypothesized to be compensated by 3D-effects, temporary effects, less steep slope effects, or none at all.

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