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Physical oceanography

the wintertime sinking of surface water made dense by cooling and brine, which mixes the water column to great depth in a few polar seas.

In physical oceanography, deep water formation refers to the wintertime sinking of surface water made dense by cooling and brine, which mixes the water column to great depth in a few polar seas. This meaning comes from Marshall (1999) in Reviews of Geophysics.[1]

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  1. Marshall, J., & Schott, F. (1999). Open‐ocean convection: Observations, theory, and models. Reviews of Geophysics, 37(1), 1-64. https://doi.org/10.1029/98rg02739

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