Cabbeling

Quick meaning: Cabbeling is a noun meaning (oceanography) The process by which two masses of water with different temperatures and salinities mix to form a new water mass with a density higher than the density of either parent water mass; also, the sinking of the new water mass as the effect of its increased density.

Meaning

(oceanography) The process by which two masses of water with different temperatures and salinities mix to form a new water mass with a density higher than the density of either parent water mass; also, the sinking of the new water mass as the effect of its increased density.

Example Sentences

This effect is presumably compensated for by cabbelling, or densification on mixing, below the surface, but would be interesting to examine in a numerical model.

He reasoned that cabbeling would form a front at the juxtaposition of Warm Deep Water and Shelf Water. Sinking along such a front would thus inhibit the cross shelf flow of shelf water.

Word Forms

• caballing
• cabbelling

Related Words

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