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Efficiency of turbulent mixing in the abyssal ocean circulation by Mashayek, A., Salehipour, H., Bouffard, D., Caulfield, C. P., Ferrari, R., Nikurashin, M., Peltier, W. R., Smyth, W. D.

“…Abstract Turbulent mixing produced by breaking of internal waves plays an important role in setting the patterns of downwelling and upwelling of deep dense…”
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A Marginal Stability Paradigm for Shear‐Induced Diapycnal Turbulent Mixing in the Ocean by Mashayek, A., Baker, L. E., Cael, B. B., Caulfield, C. P.

“…Turbulent mixing induced by breaking internal waves is key to the ocean circulation and global tracer budgets. While the classic marginal shear instability of…”
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Topographic enhancement of vertical turbulent mixing in the Southern Ocean by Mashayek, A., Ferrari, R., Merrifield, S., Ledwell, J. R., St Laurent, L., Garabato, A. Naveira

“…It is an open question whether turbulent mixing across density surfaces is sufficiently large to play a dominant role in closing the deep branch of the ocean…”
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Impact of Spatial Variability in Zooplankton Grazing Rates on Carbon Export Flux by Meyjes, S. A., Petrik, C. M., Rohr, T., Cael, B. B., Mashayek, A.

“…The biological carbon pump is a key controller of how much carbon is stored within the global ocean. This pathway is influenced by food web interactions…”
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The Rapid Response of Southern Ocean Biological Productivity to Changes in Background Small Scale Turbulence by Ellison, E., Mazloff, M., Mashayek, A.

“…Background subsurface vertical mixing rates in the Southern Ocean (SO) are known to vary by an order of magnitude temporally and spatially, due to variability…”
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The Impact of Representations of Realistic Topography on Parameterized Oceanic Lee Wave Energy Flux by Baker, L. E., Mashayek, A.

“…Oceanic lee waves are generated when quasi‐steady flows interact with rough topography at the bottom of the ocean, providing an important sink of energy and…”
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The role of the geothermal heat flux in driving the abyssal ocean circulation by Mashayek, A., Ferrari, R., Vettoretti, G., Peltier, W. R.

“…The results presented in this paper demonstrate that the geothermal heat flux (GHF) from the solid Earth into the ocean plays a non‐negligible role in…”
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Boundary Upwelling of Antarctic Bottom Water by Topographic Turbulence by Baker, L. E., Mashayek, A., Naveira Garabato, A. C.

“…Abstract The lower cell of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is sourced by dense Antarctic Bottom Waters (AABWs), which form and sink around…”
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Turbulence transition in stratified atmospheric and oceanic shear flows: Reynolds and Prandtl number controls upon the mechanism by Mashayek, A., Peltier, W. R.

“…We provide detailed analyses of the role of secondary instabilities in the transition to turbulence of stratified shear flows at the high Reynolds and Prandtl…”
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Motion of a spherical particle inside a liquid film by Mashayek, A., Pozrikidis, C.

“…The motion of a spherical particle inside a liquid film coated on a plane wall is considered under conditions of Stokes flow in the limit of vanishing…”
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Turbulence transition in stratified atmospheric and oceanic shear flows: Reynolds and Prandtl number controls upon the mechanism: MIXING BY SHEAR INSTABILITY by Mashayek, A., Peltier, W. R.

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A physical–statistical recipe for representation of small-scale oceanic turbulent mixing in climate models by Mashayek, A., Cael, B.B., Cimoli, L., Alford, M.H., Caulfield, C.P.

“…It is well established that small-scale cross-density (diapycnal) turbulent mixing induced by breaking of overturns in the interior of the ocean plays a…”
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