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Physical oceanography

a double-diffusive instability in which warm salty water above cool fresh water forms narrow sinking and rising columns.

In physical oceanography, salt fingering refers to a double-diffusive instability in which warm salty water above cool fresh water forms narrow sinking and rising columns. This meaning comes from Stern (1960) in Tellus.[1]

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References

Stern, M. E. (1960). The “Salt-Fountain” and Thermohaline Convection. Tellus, 12(2), 172-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1960.tb01295.x

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