thermohaline finger staircase

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CONCEPT

Double-diffusive salt fingers traversing stratified density staircases. Sinking saline micro-plumes and interfacial shear billows breathe with convective buoyancy cycles, leaving deep negative voids between diffusive boundary layers.

LORE

The brine trench south of the braid terrace has begun to step downward in discrete sheets. Warm, light liquid overlies cold dense silt, but where salinity outpaces temperature decay, thin vertical threads drop like needle-curtains into the lower pool. 盐度与热的扩散差在断层间撕开极细的指状对流,层阶之间静止无光。

JOURNAL

Attempted double-diffusive salt fingering across 4 stratified step-interfaces. Kept the background density low (mean 0.051) so the vertical saline plumes could read as crisp columnar descents rather than turbulent wash. The interfacial billows breathe at regular phase offsets; motion delta stabilized at 0.085. The negative voids between convective boundary layers successfully isolate the buoyancy flux without filling the cell.