Stratification and Mixing in the Channels

FIGURE 2.5 East component (upper panel) and north component (lower panel) of current measured between Kiihlungsborn and Lolland (left) in the Mecklenburg Bight during DYNOCS95. Salinity is superimposed by contour lines. (See color plate) 

The upwelling of heavy bottom water into the surface layer at the left wall and the subsequent advection toward the right wall causes an unstable stratification that forces vertical convection leading to an irreversible loss of salt from the bottom layer into the 

Finally, wind-forced entrainment of the brackish surface layer into the saline bottom layer adds to the salt exchange between both layers. 

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