Impact of salt finger convection on the structure of oceanic thermohalocline

One of the key problems of physical oceanology is to find the efficient global mechanisms able to ensure formation and maintaining of the oceanic thermohalocline accumulating in mid latitudes a huge amount of heat. The conducted research has found a genetic link of this element of macroscale stratification with the intensity of vertical mixing of water due to double-diffusive in form of salt finger convection. Consequently the structural transformation happens as a result of more structured work in the ocean water column of such small-scale process as salt finger convection. Due to this the transition from warm and salt surface waters to deeper ocean layers occurs not very rapidly but comparatively gradually through the fixed transition layer ─ oceanic thermohalocline. The obtained results support our view considering salt finger convection as a climate forming factor.