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Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1125-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1125-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
Research article
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25 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 25 Jun 2025

A global summary of seafloor topography influenced by internal-wave-induced turbulent water mixing

Hans van Haren and Henk de Haas

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Turbulent water motions are important for the exchange of momentum, heat, nutrients, and suspended matter in the deep sea. The shape of the marine topography influences most water turbulence via breaking internal waves at critically sloping seafloors. In this paper, the concept of critical slopes is revisited from a global internal wave turbulence viewpoint using seafloor topography and moored temperature sensor data. The potential robustness of the seafloor–internal wave interaction is discussed.
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