A seasonal climatology of the upper ocean pycnocline

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Sérazin, Guillaume, Tréguier, Anne Marie, de Boyer Montégut, Clément
• Other Authors: Agence Nationale de la Recherche
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2023
• Subjects: Ocean Engineering; Water Science and Technology; Aquatic Science; Global and Planetary Change; Oceanography; Antarctic; Pacific; Rockall Plateau; The Antarctic; Antarc*; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1120112; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1120112/full

Climatologies of the mixed layer depth (MLD) have been provided using several definitions based on temperature/density thresholds or hybrid approaches. The upper ocean pycnocline (UOP) that sits below the mixed layer base remains poorly characterized, though this transition layer is an ubiquitous fe...