OCEAN MODELLING, vol.20, no.2, pp.183-206, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)
Mixing between overflows and ambient water masses is a critical problem of deep-water mass formation in the down-welling branch of the meridional overturning circulation of the ocean. Modeling approaches that have been tested so far rely either on algebraic parameterizations in hydrostatic ocean circulation models, or on large eddy simulations that resolve most of the mixing using nonhydrostatic models.