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The Salt-Fountain and Thermohaline Convection by Melvin E. Stern (1960)

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Original title: The “Salt-Fountain” and Thermohaline Convection. Tellus 12(2), 172–175 (1960). doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v12i2.9378 . Primary scan: tellusjournal.org/articles/3452/files/6572a28649978.pdf . Publisher byline identifies Melvin E. Stern at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Cited passages: warm saline water above cool fresh water, unequal heat/salt diffusion and the salt-fountain mechanism.

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