Cabbeling

<h2 id="history-of-term">History of term</h2>
The importance of this process in oceanography was first pointed out <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a> by Witte, in a 1902 publication (Witte, E. (1902). <a href="http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/20314/file/E000009258.pdf">"Zur Theorie der Stromkabbelungen"</a> (PDF). Gaea, Köln.).
The German origin of the term has caused some <a href="/facts/Etymological/18QG6y67">etymological</a> confusion and disagreements as to the correct spelling of the term;<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a> for details, see the Wiktionary entry on cabelling. Oceanographers generally follow Stommel<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a> and refer to the process as "cabbeling".

<h2 id="high-latitude-cabbeling">High-latitude cabbeling</h2>
Cabbeling may occur in high incidence in high latitude waters. <a href="/facts/Polar_region/KkBuzr2n">Polar region</a> waters are a place where cold and fresh water melting from <a href="/facts/Sea_ice/tgTbCYwg">sea ice</a> meets warmer, saltier water. <a href="/facts/Ocean_currents/vfwdGwPY">Ocean currents</a> are responsible for bringing this warmer, saltier water to higher latitudes, especially on the eastern shores of <a href="/facts/Northern_Hemisphere/EFwyqL25">Northern Hemisphere</a> continents, and on the western shores of <a href="/facts/Southern_Hemisphere/QfJ4z9L5">Southern Hemisphere</a> continents. The phenomenon of cabbeling has been particularly noted in the <a href="/facts/Weddell_Sea/oqM0CUF8">Weddell Sea</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a> and the <a href="/facts/Greenland_Sea/tQSLx3AV">Greenland Sea</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a>

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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Beer, Tom (1997). Environmental oceanography. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 123. ISBN 0-8493-8425-7, Section 5.4.3 Cabbeling. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">"Water Density". Archived from the original on 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-01-25. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160212213733/http://linkingweatherandclimate.com/ocean/waterdensity.php" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160212213733/http://linkingweatherandclimate.com/ocean/waterdensity.php</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">AMS glossary Archived 2012-03-30 at the Wayback Machine,. <a href="http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?p=1&query=cabbeling&submit=Search" target="_blank">http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?p=1&query=cabbeling&submit=Search</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">"AGU: Advanced Search". AGU Journals. <a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/search/advanced?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fjc%2FJC092iC05p05448.xml&view=article" target="_blank">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/search/advanced?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fjc%2FJC092iC05p05448.xml&view=article</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Theodore D. Foster (1972). "An Analysis of the Cabbeling Instability in Sea Water". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 2 (3): 296. Bibcode:1972JPO.....2..294F. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1972)002<0294:AAOTCI>2.0.CO;2. Witte (1902) was evidently the first person to point out the possible importance of this process in the ocean. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1175%2F1520-0485%281972%29002%3C0294%3AAAOTCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1175%2F1520-0485%281972%29002%3C0294%3AAAOTCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Foster, T. D. (1972). "An Analysis of Cabbeling Instability in Sea Water". Journal of Physical Oceanography. 2 (3): 294–301. Bibcode:1972JPO.....2..294F. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1972)002<0294:AAOTCI>2.0.CO;2. Witte thought that the process would be so effective that the sinking would give rise to a rippled or choppy appearance of the sea surface, which in German nautical terminology has been designated "Kabbelung". There is a not very common English cognate "cobbeling" (Webster's Second New International Dictionary) for this word, but the term does not seem to have been generally accepted by oceanographers. There appears to be a great diversity of opinion about the correct spelling of the English word for this mixing process partly, perhaps, due to different opinions concerning the etymology of the word. One opinion is that the word should be spelled "caballing" meaning "to unite in an intrigue" since the two components conspire to form a more dense mixture. Another opinion is that "Kabbelung" should be anglicized to "cabbeling" and can be used to designate the mixing process itself rather than the appearance of a choppy sea surface which was evidently Witte's intention. Rather than introduce a new term we shall follow Stommel (1960, p.31) and refer to the process as "cabbeling". <a href="https://doi.org/10.1175%2F1520-0485%281972%29002%3C0294%3AAAOTCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1175%2F1520-0485%281972%29002%3C0294%3AAAOTCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Stommel, H. (1960). The Gulf Stream. University of California Press. p. 31. <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Cabbeling in the Weddell Sea paper,. <a href="http://www.oc.nps.edu/thermobaricity/workshop/cabbel_draft.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.oc.nps.edu/thermobaricity/workshop/cabbel_draft.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">Cabbeling in the Greenland Basin paper,. <a href="http://www.ocean-sci-discuss.net/5/507/2008/osd-5-507-2008.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ocean-sci-discuss.net/5/507/2008/osd-5-507-2008.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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