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New Day Cafe: Ocean Staircases [1]
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Date: 2022-10-13
From The Guardian’s discussion of the ocean staircase,
“Oceanographers call these staircases striking and spectacular. The liquid equivalent of towering rock formations, they can be several hundred metres high but nobody could fully explain how they form.
The density of a region of water depends on its temperature (colder is heavier) and salinity (saltier is heavier). A warm, less-salty packet of water will rise, while cold, salty water will sink.
Yuchen Ma, a researcher, says under some circumstances this leads to a feedback process. Dense water gets even denser as it sinks, and rising light water gets lighter. This means even if the water is initially evenly distributed, any perturbation causes it to sort itself into layers.”
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