We present the first laboratory-based results on thermohaline vortex decay. Anticyclonic vortices 1m in diameter were generated within a stratified tank on a rotating platform. Besides an m=2 baroclinic instability, if heated, initially convective edge features yield at later times to diffusive convection and layering: the presumed beginnings of a thermohaline staircase.
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