A Theory of Deep Stratification and Overturning Circulation in the Ocean

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Jets and Topography: Jet Transitions and the Impact on Transport in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (2012, background): “These results stress the complications in developing consistent circumpolar definitions of the ACC fronts.”
Overturning circulation driven by breaking internal waves in the deep ocean (2013, background): “…the abyssal waters, formed around Antarctica, are believed to upwell from the abyss to mid-depth across density surfaces, and thus the transformation into lighter waters occurs in the ocean interior through mixing with overlying water masses [Stommel, 1958; Munk, 1966; Nikurashin and Vallis, 2011].”
Turning Ocean Mixing Upside Down (2015, unknown): “A similar conclusion was reached by Mashayek et al. (2015) and casts doubt on idealized models of the abyssal overturning circulation that use a ﬂat bottom and a prescribed turbulent diffusivity (e.g., Nikurashin and Vallis 2011; Munday et al. 2013; Mashayek et al. 2015).”