Subtropical surface layer salinity budget and the role of mesoscale turbulence

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4124-4140

  Busecke, Julius ^a   Gordon, Arnold L ^a   Li, Zhijin ^b   Bingham, Frederick M ^c   Font, Jordi ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^d Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta   (Spain)

Author keywords

mesoscale; North Atlantic; sea surface salinity maximum; subtropics; upper ocean processes

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TURBULENCE; WATER;

MESOSCALE; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SUBTROPICS; UPPER OCEAN PROCESS;

TROPICS;

MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MIXED LAYER; SALINITY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SURFACE LAYER; TURBULENCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84906090331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009715     Document Type: Article

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