Mixed layer depth for 1998 to 2008
Acoustic mapping of mixed layer depth
... The increased SNRs of wideband echo sounders have made it possible to map density stratification in the ocean. Stranne et al. (2017) were able to acoustically image individ- ual thermohaline steps resulting from the ...
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Mixed layer depth variability in the Red Sea
... Received: 15 January 2018 – Discussion started: 16 February 2018 Revised: 7 June 2018 – Accepted: 10 June 2018 – Published: 2 July 2018 Abstract. For the first time, a monthly climatology of mixed layer ...
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Estimation of Mixed Layer Depth at the AZMP Fixed Stations
... gradient depth when compared with threshold and gradient threshold MLD estimates, its utility in climatological studies and in exploring the links between physical and biological processes may warrant further ...
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Mixed layer depth seasonality within the Coral Sea based on Argo data
... the mixed layer depth (MLD) within the Coral Sea was examined with CTD profiles from Argo ...isothermal layer depth (ILD) coincide quite well in most cases, the relatively common ...
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On the annual cycle of the sea surface temperature and the mixed layer depth in the Gulf of México
... This iteration process is continued for several annual cycles until the temperature and the depth computed for each month between two consecutive years have a difference smaller than 0.01 °C and 0.01 m, ...
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Verification of the mixed layer depth in the OceanMAPS operational forecast model for Austral autumn
... To provide a more quantitative assessment of the differences between each model version, the magnitude of the differ- ence between the observed and forecast MLD was calculated (Fig. 4). The regional bias previously ...
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Role of Mixed Layer Depth and Subduction Processes for the Southern Ocean Carbon and Nutrient Cycles
... summer mixed layer variability by combining observations and model MLD sensitivity ...summer mixed layer depth to recent atmospheric forcing is zonally asym- metric but the pattern of ...
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A mechanistic model of an upper bound on oceanic carbon export as a function of mixed layer depth and temperature
... to depth through biological ...by mixed layer depth ...critical depth hypothesis, we derive a mechanistic model of an upper bound on carbon export based on the metabolic balance between ...
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The Black Sea Mixed Layer Depth Variability and Its Relation to the Basin Dynamics and Atmospheric Forcing
... upper layer, the real values of MLD may be slightly ...surface layer and the occurrence of intense bloom of phytoplankton in the warm season [25], significantly affecting the functioning of the Black Sea ...
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Sea surface temperature and mixed layer depth changes due to cold-air outbreak in the gulf of México
... the mixed layer in the Gulf of México (GoM), during the pe- riod 18-23 October 1999, is shown in this ...sea mixed layer depth (MLD) changes due to atmospheric forcing before and during ...
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Mixed-phase layer clouds
... Total depth of well-mixed layer is 500m, so at this rate available ice nuclei are completely depleted in about 1 hr. But we sampled in situ for 4 hours, and flux at end was similar to that at the ...
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The oceanographic and geochemical effects of mixed layer depth variability and increasing anthropogenic CO₂ on the inorganic carbon system of the Coral Sea
... the mixed layer depth (MLD) in many ocean regions and, thus, warmer surface waters (within the MLD), which could have dire consequences for coral reef ecosystems and the ocean’s capability for CO 2 ...
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Sensitivity of remote sensing – derived phytoplankton productivity to mixed layer depth: Lessons from the carbon-based productivity model
... and depth-dependent variations in light properties, phytoplankton biomass and growth rate [Westberry et ...al., 2008]. This depth- and wavelength- resolved (DWR) CbPM was also subjected to MLD ...
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Forecasting the mixed-layer depth in the Northeast Atlantic: an ensemble approach, with uncertainties based on data from operational ocean forecasting systems
... the mixed-layer forecast (bottom panel in ...the mixed layer (typically for the 5 or 6 days which are not included in this ...the mixed layer is greater than ...the ...
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Wave-turbulence scaling in the ocean mixed layer
... boundary layer, the depth dependence of was found to be largely consistent with that expected for a shear-driven wall ...the mixed layer depth. Integrating in the mixed ...
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Characteristics of Langmuir Turbulence in the Ocean Mixed Layer
... Note that because the time stepping and advection schemes conserve energy all of the dissipation is asso- ciated with the subgrid model (Brown et al. 2000). Figure 1 shows an example of a TKE budget of the resolved ...
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Signature of ocean warming at the mixed layer base
... Figure 1. (a) Maximum winter mixed layer depth referred as the WML base. (b) Turner angle across the WML base averaged for the three winter months of each hemisphere. The black lines correspond to ...
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Mixed layer variability and chlorophyll biomass in the Bay of Bengal
... The mixed layer is the most variable and dynam- ically active part of the marine environment that couples the underlying ocean to the atmosphere and plays an important role in determining the oceanic ...
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Why is the tropical cyclone boundary layer not "well-mixed"?
... boundary layer include (i) the top of the layer of strong frictional inflow and (ii) the top of the ‘‘well mixed’’ layer, that is, the layer over which potential temperature u is ...
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Carbon and nutrient mixed layer dynamics in the Norwegian Sea
... deepening mixed layer (MLD1) and a slowly shoal- ing and deepening mixed layer (MLD2) and an intermediate mixed layer ...the mixed layer and hence the phytoplankton ...
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