Quantifying the role of Mixed Layer entrainment for water mass transformation in the North Atlantic

Forcing by wind stress and air-sea buoyancy flux climatologies between sigma1 = 23.5 and 26.5 results in differing water mass transformations in the North Atlantic, reflecting the opposing tendencies of wind stress and air-sea fluxes. this difference needs to be reconciled in terms of various processes that lead to diapycnal advection and mixing. This study attempts to quantify the contribution of one such process to water mass transformation--the small-scale but ubiquitous process of mixed layer entrainment and deepening.