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Comparison of global ocean colour data records
... The second focus of the analysis is on regional scales. The global ocean is partitioned into the biogeographic provinces proposed by Longhurst (1998) (Fig. 2) with minor mod- ifications (separate provinces ...
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Consistency of the current global ocean observing systems from an Argo perspective
... other global ocean observing systems relies on two ...deep ocean be- low 1500 m depth are ...the ocean warming has occurred below 700 m, contributing significantly to an acceleration of the ...
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On the time to tracer equilibrium in the global ocean
... deep ocean. Global ocean cir- culation models can help shed light on the timescales over which a tracer comes to equilibrium in different regions of the ...three-dimensional ocean circula- ...
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Distribution of known macrozooplankton abundance and biomass in the global ocean
... macrozooplankton biomass to a depth of 350 m has been used to estimate an annual average epipelagic macrozoo- plankton biomass of 0.02 Pg C. There are two reasons why we have picked 350 m for this calculation: (1) ...
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Characteristics of the seasonal cycle of surface layer salinity in the global ocean
... the ocean, but that there were other areas where other terms ...the global ocean, espe- cially in the subtropics (see Yu, 2011, ...a global scale as we will here, nor does she assess the ...
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Global ocean salinity : a climate change diagnostic?
... the ocean halosteric changes can account for up to 50% of the total steric ...depth-integrated global ocean by area, in regions strongly affected by local freshening or enhanced ...
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Distribution of mesozooplankton biomass in the global ocean
... the global ocean, they are also the primary contributors to vertical particle flux in the ...their global distribution and biomass. While global maps of mesozooplankton biomass do exist in the ...
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Picoheterotroph ( Bacteria and Archaea ) biomass distribution in the global ocean
... Le Qu´er´e, C., Harrison, S. P., Prentice, I. C., Buitenhuis, E. T., Au- mont, O., Bopp, L., Claustre, H., Da Cunha, L. C., Geider, R., Giraud, X., Klaas, C., Kohfeld, K. E., Legendre, L., Manizza, M., Platt, T., Rivkin, ...
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The global ocean circulation on a retrograde rotating earth
... three-dimensional ocean circu- lation patterns that have occurred in past continental geome- tries, it is crucial to study the role of the present-day con- tinental geometry and surface (wind stress and buoyancy) ...
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The local ensemble transform Kalman filter and the running-in-place algorithm applied to a global ocean general circulation model
... benchmark ocean as- similation system (SODA) using an identical global ocean model with identical observed temperature and salinity pro- file data set, initial conditions, and surface ...included ...
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Rapid global ocean atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial
... Contrasting Greenland and Antarctic temperatures during the last glacial period (115,000 to 11,650 years ago) are thought to have been driven by imbalances in the rates of formation of North Atlantic and Antarctic Deep ...
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14 C-age tracers in global ocean circulation models
... surface ocean is not well known ...Southern Ocean polar waters and equatorial upwelling re- gions, and up to 7 years in the subtropical gyres ...ern Ocean is ...
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An adaptive vertical coordinate for idealised and global ocean modelling
... An integral component of the HYCOM1 coordinate in MOM6 is the association of a single density value with every unique interface. This gives a strong link to the pure isopycnal coordinate and allows a maximum height to be ...
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Picophytoplankton biomass distribution in the global ocean
... from laboratory studies tend to be higher than from in situ measurements (Buitenhuis et al., 2012a). Indeed, even if we do not account for an increase of cell size with depth, the laboratory conversion factors lead to a ...
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Electrical conductivity of the global ocean
... the ocean, even for oceanographers familiar with the distributions of T and ...of ocean conductivity must be obtained through original analyses of observations, rather than through reference to other ...
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How well can we derive Global Ocean Indicators from Argo data?
... the ocean salinity field due to the large-scale balance between the surface freshwater flux (evaporation minus precipitation and continental run- off), salinity variations and the ocean’s advective and mixing ...
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Calibrating a global three-dimensional biogeochemical ocean model (MOPS-1.0)
... open ocean and during winter season in the high latitudes (Kriest et ...and ocean circulation introduce a variety of timescales, from minutes to millennia, hampering a complete and thorough investigation of ...
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The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth
... The global ocean conveyer belt (Broecker, 1991), with meridional overturning in the North Atlantic fueling a deep western boundary current that winds through the southern ocean, around Africa and ...
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Reviews and syntheses: the GESAMP atmospheric iron deposition model intercomparison study
... the ocean, and of the physicochemical forms of Fe that can be utilized by marine biota ...the global ocean (Baker and Croot, 2010; Shi et ...surface ocean, the soluble form of Fe delivered ...
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Formulation of an ocean model for global climate simulations
... The ubiquitous use of horizontal friction in global ocean cli- mate models is not motivated from fundamental physical principles. Instead, horizontal friction provides a numer- ical closure. In particular, ...
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