Changes in the Water Masses
Water Types and Water Masses
... of water masses at all three of these ...corresponding water mass is indicated by the hatched ...upper water mass ...completely changes the wind patterns twice a ...the water ...
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The Water Masses and Circulation at the Amery Ice Shelf
... An abrupt increase in temperature and a gradual salinity increase mark the arrival of HSSW at intermediate depths at AM06. On the contrary of the Down Transitional Period, another feature of this period is the syn- ...
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Distribution of intermediate water masses in the subtropical northeast Atlantic
... mid-depths water types has not been ...mid-depth water types, and refines the limits of their ...the changes in the water type, presented as percentages with the distance from the source, is ...
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Variability of water masses and circulation in the subtropical North Atlantic
... this relationship as due to a weakening of the trades (during the breakdowns of high pressure) and a cessation of the basin-wide northward Ekman drift, so that the surface flow into the Caribbean increases, and augments ...
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Inorganic carbon and water masses in the Irminger Sea since 1991
... curred primarily in the IW and uLSW. However, cLSW also appears to be affected by the most recent event in 2015. 6 Discussion The data that have been collected in the Irminger Sea over the past decades provide ...
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Trends of anthropogenic CO 2storage in North Atlantic water masses
... the changes in the volumetric census of the water masses caused by differential formation rates in differ- ent years, which has been shown to be particularly the case in the Irminger and Iceland ...
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Water masses as a unifying framework for understanding the Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle
... DIC changes along the stream- lines of the overturning? Keeping these questions in mind, it is thus clear that the Lagrangian approach is thus perfectly suitable for the ...
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The Barents Sea frontal zones and water masses variability (1980–2011)
... Sea Water might stop ...Atlantic Water invades this area and has displaced the Southern Front ...these changes on the dense water formation in the BS, and therefore on the ...
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Protist community grazing on prokaryotic prey in deep ocean water masses
... targeted water features, we stained cells from a coastal marine site, and thus the results must be interpreted cautiously given that community composition and average cell sizes would not be ...pressure ...
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Fram Strait and Greenland Sea transports, water masses, and water mass transformations 1999–2010 (and beyond)
... dense water formation and result in a breakdown of the overturning circulation and thus a change to a weaker estuarine circulation as proposed by Stommel ...dense water formations in the Greenland Sea and ...
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Upper Arctic Ocean water masses harbor distinct communities of heterotrophic flagellates
... oceanic water columns can be density stratified due to the temperature and salinity characteristics of different water masses, the Arctic Ocean is particularly well stratified, with nutrients often ...
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Differences between 1999 and 2010 across the Falkland Plateau: fronts and water masses
... The SAF is the main path for the northward flow of SASW, SAMW and AAIW/AASW into the Atlantic Basin. The PF also contributes to this northward flow, being important for the UCDW and LCDW. The PF in 1999 is located in the ...
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Assessment of the structure and variability of Weddell Sea water masses in distinct ocean reanalysis products
... In spite of the efforts made to understand the physical processes associated with those long-term changes, the re- gional seas of the Southern Ocean have limited and gener- ally summer-biased sampling ...
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Seasonal variability of intermediate water masses in the Gulf of Cádiz: implications of the Antarctic and subarctic seesaw
... important changes in merid- ional transport of water masses in this ...high-latitude water masses by the eastern boundary, while a gyre centred at lower latitude does not favour this ...
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Water Mass Classification on a Highly Variable Arctic Shelf Region: Origin of Laptev Sea Water Masses and Implications for the Nutrient Budget
... and changes of the freshwater budget in response to Arctic warming have already significantly affected Arctic marine productivity ...upper water stratification and a reduction of vertical mixing ...bottom ...
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Subtropical Water Masses in Halmahera Waters
... of water masses by using conductivity temperature depth (CTD), are conducted in the eastern path of the Indonesia Throughflow (ITF) in the Halmahera, Seram and Banda seas during March-April 2007 under the ...
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Transequatorial movement of water masses in the Indian Ocean
... The heterogeneous nature of the northern region in the frequency distribution of potential temperature and salinity as well as in the 0-S scatter is the consequence o[r] ...
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Water Masses in the Atlantic Ocean: Characteristics and Distributions
... of water masses is also important for biogeochemical and biological applications, where the transformations of properties over time can be successfully viewed in the water masses frame- ...
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Observed acidification trends in North Atlantic water masses
... 5 Conclusions The progressive acidification of North Atlantic waters has been assessed from direct pH observations spanning the last three decades. The increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentra- tions have largely affected ...
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On the currents and water masses north of the Antilles/Bahamas arc
... The above findings may be suggestively associated as a guide for planning future work, but the relationships are admittedly speculative given the present data: In th[r] ...
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