Science. 2000 Jun 16;288(5473):1947-9. doi: 10.1126/science.288.5473.1947.
In their simulations of how the sea's ponderous flows of water and heat affect climate, including future greenhouse warming, climate modelers assumed that something evenly stirred the world ocean from top to bottom around the globe. But oceanographers gauging the tides of the world's seas from a satellite perch have found intense patches of tidally driven mixing deep within the open ocean. Once modelers include these patches, they should see some changes in model predictions of global warming.
在模拟海洋的水流和热量对气候的影响，包括未来温室效应变暖的过程中，气候模型研究者假设某种力量能在全球范围内将整个世界大洋由上至下地均匀搅动。但是，海洋学家们从卫星上观察全球海洋的潮汐时，却发现海洋深处存在着强烈的潮汐混合区。一旦模型研究者们将这些区域纳入考虑，他们就应该能在全球变暖模型的预测中看到一些变化。
