The sea surface and upper ocean
Upper Ocean Profiles of Surface Salinity from the Air-Sea Interaction Profiler
... the surface salinity varies between about 32 and 38 on the practical salinity scale, with the strongest variations in the vicinity of river outflows and heavy ...and sea surface temperature but, in ...
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The influence of surface gravity waves on the injection of turbulence in the upper ocean
... investigate upper ocean turbulence both experimentally and ...the sea surface, we use a moored sub-surface plat- form equipped with different oceanographic sensors includ- ing shear ...
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Sea Surface Temperature of the mid-Piacenzian Ocean: A Data-Model Comparison
... the upper ocean 63,64 , but dem- onstrating that to be the case for the PlioMIP simulations will require analysis beyond the scope of the current ...
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Northern North Atlantic Sea Surface Height and Ocean Heat Content Variability
... This isopycnal is at 1000 m depth at 30 N and rises to 750 m depth at 50 N–55 N; hence, the lighter, warmer waters above are likely arriving from the NAC route. [ 17 ] Salinity variability accompanies these OHC ...
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Surface signature of Mediterranean water eddies in the Northeastern Atlantic: effect of the upper ocean stratification
... of sea-surface detec- tion conditions for various meddy-core ...the upper layer stratification affects the intensity of the sig- nal, but the range of the seasonal variation should not exceed 2–4 ...
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Causes of the Regional Variability in Observed Sea Level, Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Colour Over the Period 1993–2011
... the upper layer, and the importance of the surface heat fluxes in the SSH variability, we may speculate that bio-optical heating could influence SSH variability ...the surface would alter ...
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Surface Wave Impacts on Air-Sea Momentum Flux and Upper Ocean Turbulence Under Tropical Cyclones
... different sea-states on the wind stress is still an unresolved question, particularly with complex wave fields such as those under tropical cyclone ...different sea-states on the wind stress with the help ...
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Spatial distribution of turbulent mixing in the upper ocean of the South China Sea
... the upper 500 m of the northern SCS reached O (10 −5 m 2 s −1 ), almost 1 order of magnitude larger than that in the ...the upper pycnocline of the northern SCS and found values in the Luzon Strait as high ...
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Ocean surface wave transformation over a sandy sea bed
... C. PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS ON WAVE TRANSFORMATION OVER CONTINENTAL SHELVES From the numerous experiments on wave transformation found in the literature, three are considered to be relevant to the objective of this thesis, ...
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Assimilation of sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration and sea ice drift in a model of the Southern Ocean
... Current ocean models have relatively large errors and biases in the Southern ...assimilating sea surface temperature, sea ice concentration and sea ice ...how surface winds in ...
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An empirical stochastic model of sea-surface temperatures and surface winds over the Southern Ocean
... Southern Ocean is likely to be of global significance, due to this ocean’s special role in linking the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian ...air- sea coupling over the Southern Ocean has been slow, ...
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Hydrographic changes in the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean with focus on an upper ocean freshwater anomaly between 2007 and 2010
... Arctic Ocean show that freshwater content in the Lincoln Sea, north of Greenland, increased significantly from 2007 to 2010, slightly lagging changes in the eastern and central ...the upper ...
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The region of large sea surface height variability in the southeast Pacific Ocean
... of sea surface height (SSH) show an extensive triangular region of high variability in the southeastern ...global ocean model forced by 6-hourly ECMWF ...
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Adriatic Sea surface temperature and ocean colour variability during the MFSPP
... Flows along the Albanian and the Italian coasts can be dis- tinguished year-round in the monthly averaged Chl but only in the colder months in the monthly averaged SST’s. The Chl monthly-averaged fields supply less ...
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Improving Sea-Surface Remote Sensing of Ocean Wind Vectors by Scatterometers
... Satellite-borne observations of sea surface backscatter are routinely used to esti- mate winds. Currently, the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) aboard the European MetOp-1 satellite measures sea ...
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Autocorrelation characteristics of the surface ocean pCO2 and air-sea CO2 fluxes
... in sea surface ...available surface ocean ...a surface ocean box in inversions in order to merge the oceanic and atmospheric data streams most ...
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Impact of Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature on Developing El Niño*
... Indian Ocean may distort the air–sea feedbacks between latent heat flux and SST, which lead to spurious variance in rainfall and surface wind ...dian Ocean SST ...
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On the diurnal ranges of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in the North Indian Ocean
... Indian Ocean, except for the global climatology of diurnal warming produced by Kennedy et al (2007) using drifting buoy observa- ...Indian Ocean exhibits a large annual cycle in SST owing to reversing ...
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Assimilating high-resolution sea surface temperature data improves the ocean forecast potential in the Baltic Sea
... of ocean state around analyzed observa- tion and break the continuity of the ocean ...North Sea and Baltic ...North Sea and Baltic Sea in this ...
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Sampling Sea and Ocean
... The MERCOS Sampler is attached to a plastic-coated steel hydrographic wire and lowered into the water in closed configuration in order to prevent sample con- tamination by surface water. The sampler is opened by ...
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