ABSTRACT
Heat, dissolved matter and suspended matter are being vertically transported in the sea owing both to the turbulent exchange and to the vertical component of the mean current velocity W. As is shown in ref. [1], in some cases, when separation of turbulent and advective transports is difficult, it seems reasonable to apply the total transport coefficient Kz [1]
dS /d2S
Here, S is the conservative substance in seawater and KT is the vertical turbulent diffusion coefficient. The second term in the right-hand part of the relation has the dimensionality of the diffusion coefficient and considers the water mass transport upward or downward depending on the sign of W. Because KT depends on water stability E, this affords us sufficient grounds to suppose that W also depends on E [1].
