A seasonal climatology of the upper ocean pycnocline

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Sérazin, Guillaume, Treguier, Anne-marie, De Boyer Montégut, Clement
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2023
• Subjects: upper ocean stratification; mixed layer depth; boundary layer; air-sea exchanges; seasonal variability; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Pacific; Rockall Plateau; Antarc*; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00828/93977/100800.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00828/93977/100801.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1120112; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00828/93977/

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...