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Surface Salinity in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre During the STRASSE/SPURS Summer 2012 Cruise
- Source :
- Limnology and Oceanography, Limnology and Oceanography, 2015, 28 (1), pp.114-123. ⟨10.5670/oceanog.2015.09⟩, Oceanography (1042-8275) (Oceanography Soc), 2015-03, Vol. 28, N. 1, P. 114-123, Limnology and Oceanography, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, 2015, 28 (1), pp.114-123. ⟨10.5670/oceanog.2015.09⟩, Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Oceanography, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 114-123 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2015.
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Abstract
- Reverdin, Gilles ... et. al.-- Special issue on SPURS: Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study.-- 10 pages, 7 figures<br />We investigated a 100 × 100 km high-salinity region of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre during the Sub-Tropical Atlantic Surface Salinity Experiment/Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study (STRASSE/SPURS) cruise from August 21, 2012, to September 9, 2012. Results showed great variability in sea surface salinity (SSS; over 0.3 psu) in the mesoscale, over 7 cm of total evaporation, and little diapycnal mixing below 36 m depth, the deepest mixed layers encountered. Strong currents in the southwestern part of the domain, and the penetration of freshwater, suggest that advection contributed greatly to salinity evolution. However, it was further observed that a smaller cyclonic structure tucked between the high SSS band and the strongest currents contributed to the transport of high SSS water along a narrow front. Cross-frontal transport by mixing is also a possible cause of summertime reduction of SSS. The observed structure was also responsible for significant southward salt transport over more than 200 km. © 2015 by The Oceanography Society. All rights reserved<br />This effort was supported nationally in France by CNES/TOSCA with the Gloscal and SMOS projects and by LEFE/INSU for the STRASSE/SPURS project, in Spain at ICM/CSIC by the Spanish national R+D plan (project AYA2010-22062-C05). The cruise took place on board R/V Thalassa owned by IFREMER and operated by GENAVIR. Support from the ship’s captain and crew during the STRASSE cruise is gratefully acknowledged. Some French instruments were also funded by INSU and IFREMER, and the trimaran platform Ocarina was also partially funded by IPSL. Nicolas Kolodziejczyk’s postdoctoral fellowship was awarded by CNES. Support for ASIP work is from the Office of Naval Research under Award No. N62909-12-1-7064, and Graig Sutherland’s scholarship PGSD3-410251-258 2011 was awarded by the National Research Council of Canada. SVP drifters were provided by the Global Drifter Program, NOAA grant #NA10OAR432056. LC and VH were supported by NASA grant #NNX12AI67G and NOAA grant #NA10OAR432056
- Subjects :
- Cruise
high salinity
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]
Subtropics
Oceanography
evaporation
lcsh:Oceanography
Ocean gyre
SPURS
ocean fronts
high SSS
lcsh:GC1-1581
14. Life underwater
STRASSE
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
geography
diapycnal mixing
geography.geographical_feature_category
North Atlantic
fluxes
6. Clean water
Salinity
13. Climate action
air-sea interaction
Environmental science
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00243590 and 19395590
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Limnology and Oceanography, Limnology and Oceanography, 2015, 28 (1), pp.114-123. ⟨10.5670/oceanog.2015.09⟩, Oceanography (1042-8275) (Oceanography Soc), 2015-03, Vol. 28, N. 1, P. 114-123, Limnology and Oceanography, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, 2015, 28 (1), pp.114-123. ⟨10.5670/oceanog.2015.09⟩, Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Oceanography, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 114-123 (2015)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....054e00d79623a20251c1a8a27ef18b61