On the Sources of North Atlantic Deep Water

Because the volumetric census of deep and bottom water in the North Atlantic Ocean consists of three isolated linear ridges along which heat and salt flow through the main volumetric mode (and point of intersections). It is possible to deduce the expected ratio of heat flux and ratio of salt fluxes...

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Main Authors: Luyten, James, McCartney, Michael, Stommel, Henry
Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1993
Subjects:
Physical and Dynamic Oceanography
*NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
*RIDGES
*BOTTOM WATERS
REPRINTS
RATIOS
TEMPERATURE
LAYERS
WATER
FLOW
DETERMINATION
CENSUS
STRAITS
DENMARK
DEEP WATER
OCEANS
SALTS
ATLANTIC OCEAN
HEAT
HEAT FLUX
CIRCULATION
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Greenland
Antarc*
Denmark Strait
North Atlantic Deep Water
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA270854
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Summary:Because the volumetric census of deep and bottom water in the North Atlantic Ocean consists of three isolated linear ridges along which heat and salt flow through the main volumetric mode (and point of intersections). It is possible to deduce the expected ratio of heat flux and ratio of salt fluxes measured in the Denmark Strait overflow off Greenland and in the Antarctic Bottom Water near the equator. The weakly stratified layers of North Atlantic Deep Water fall on the nearly linear ridge at temperatures above that of the mode. There is an incompatibility between observed ratio and deduced ratio. It is predicted that a remeasurement of the flux of Antarctic Bottom Water near the equator will show that the previous determination of 4 deg N is unrepresentatively low. North Atlantic Deep Water, Antarctic Bottom Water, Abyssal Circulation.

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