D.: A component of Labrador sea water in the Bay of Biscay, Limn
The salinity minimum at about 1,900 m in the Bay of B&cay, which lies along a well-defined line on a 0,s graph, is used to test the idea of large-scale mixing along a neutral sur-face. Contours of temperature and salinity values along a neutral surface indicate that the source region responsible...
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1973
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.552.1988 http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_18/issue_5/0711.pdf |
| Summary: | The salinity minimum at about 1,900 m in the Bay of B&cay, which lies along a well-defined line on a 0,s graph, is used to test the idea of large-scale mixing along a neutral sur-face. Contours of temperature and salinity values along a neutral surface indicate that the source region responsible for the salinity minimum lies off the slopes of Newfoundland. This description gains support from the continuity of both the salinity minimum on a T,S curve across the mid-Atlantic Ridge and the distribution of the oxygen saturation contours- on the mid-Atlantic Ridge. A neutral surface is an isopycnal surface that takes account of all the important terms in the equation of state for seawater when defining a surface of neutral static stability. I have shown (Pingree 1972) that appreciable amounts of heat and salt may be moved along a neutral surface. Some neutral surfaces were defined, for the |
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