Definition of salt finger in English:

salt finger

noun

Oceanography

One of several alternating columns of rising and descending water produced when a layer of water is overlain by a denser, saltier layer.
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Example sentencesExamples
- Since the discovery of salt fingers by Stern in 1960, there has been much speculation about their role in oceanic mixing.
- The evolution of a salt finger from initial instability to a fully developed feature is difficult to follow in a fluid because of the close-packed array of cells that is formed.

Derivatives

salt fingering

noun

Oceanography

Salt fingering appears to be a viable mechanism for salt transport in the thawing layer (talik) above ice-bonded permafrost near the seabed in the Arctic.
Example sentencesExamples
- At last month's Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, physical oceanographers reported the first direct measurement of the power of "salt fingering," in which interweaving fingers of water flow up and down between distinct layers of seawater.

Definition of salt finger in US English:

salt finger

noun

Oceanography

One of several alternating columns of rising and descending water produced when a layer of water is overlain by a denser, saltier layer.
〔海洋学〕盐指
Example sentencesExamples
- The evolution of a salt finger from initial instability to a fully developed feature is difficult to follow in a fluid because of the close-packed array of cells that is formed.
- Since the discovery of salt fingers by Stern in 1960, there has been much speculation about their role in oceanic mixing.

词汇	salt finger
释义	Definition of salt finger in English: salt finger noun Oceanography One of several alternating columns of rising and descending water produced when a layer of water is overlain by a denser, saltier layer. 〔海洋学〕盐指 Example sentencesExamples Since the discovery of salt fingers by Stern in 1960, there has been much speculation about their role in oceanic mixing. The evolution of a salt finger from initial instability to a fully developed feature is difficult to follow in a fluid because of the close-packed array of cells that is formed. Derivatives salt fingering noun Oceanography Salt fingering appears to be a viable mechanism for salt transport in the thawing layer (talik) above ice-bonded permafrost near the seabed in the Arctic. Example sentencesExamples At last month's Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, physical oceanographers reported the first direct measurement of the power of "salt fingering," in which interweaving fingers of water flow up and down between distinct layers of seawater. Definition of salt finger in US English: salt finger noun Oceanography One of several alternating columns of rising and descending water produced when a layer of water is overlain by a denser, saltier layer. 〔海洋学〕盐指 Example sentencesExamples The evolution of a salt finger from initial instability to a fully developed feature is difficult to follow in a fluid because of the close-packed array of cells that is formed. Since the discovery of salt fingers by Stern in 1960, there has been much speculation about their role in oceanic mixing.
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