Regional Variability of Thermohaline Finestructure.

Isopycnal variability of temperature is examined for the upper ocean on scales of several meters in the vertical and several hundred meters in the vertical and several hundred meters in the horizontal. A considerable number of rapidly sampled CTD profiles obtained in the Sargasso Sea (1979) and in t...

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Main Author: Hallock,Z R
Other Authors: NAVAL OCEAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY NSTL STATION MS
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1983
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*SALINITY
*THERMOCLINES
*FRONTS(OCEANOGRAPHY)
DENSITY
MEASUREMENT
OCEAN CURRENTS
CONDUCTIVITY
DISTRIBUTION
CONVECTION
DEPTH
VARIATIONS
PROFILES
TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS
SAMPLING
MIXING
DIFFUSION
NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
INTERNAL WAVES
CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
SARGASSO SEA
Norwegian Sea
PE67304N
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA127632
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Summary:Isopycnal variability of temperature is examined for the upper ocean on scales of several meters in the vertical and several hundred meters in the vertical and several hundred meters in the horizontal. A considerable number of rapidly sampled CTD profiles obtained in the Sargasso Sea (1979) and in the vicinity of the Faeroe Islands north of Scotland (1980) are described. Analyses of fine-scale variability within, adjacent to and away from a strong front are compared. A number of small, intense features are revealed which would likely have been missed by conventional sampling procedures. Analysis of strong interleaving in a frontal regime supports the hypothesis that salt-fingers drive thermohaline intrusions. (Author)

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