Coherent heat patterns revealed by unsupervised classification of Argo temperature profiles in the North Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Maze, Guillaume, Mercier, Herle, Fablet, Ronan, Tandeo, Pierre, Radcenco, Manuel Lopez, Lenca, Philippe, Feucher, Charlene, Le Goff, Clement
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd 2017
• Subjects: Heat content; Classification North Atlantic; Stratification; Water mass; Thermocline; Argo; Pattern; West European Basin; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00363/47431/47456.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2016.12.008; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00363/47431/

A quantitative understanding of the integrated ocean heat content depends on our ability to determine how heat is distributed in the ocean and what are the associated coherent patterns. This study demonstrates how this can be achieved using unsupervised classification of Argo temperature profiles. T...