Conversion among North Atlantic surface water types
Climatological data sets are used to estimate the amount of water changing temperature and salinity at the sea-surface owing to air-sea exchanges. Considering this conversion as a function of sea-surface temperature and salinity leads to the definition of a conversion vector, which represents mass s...
| Published in: | Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
1993
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| Online Access: | https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/42368/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/42368/1/Conversion%20among%20North%20Atlantic%20surface%20water%20types.pdf https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v45i1.14858 |
| Summary: | Climatological data sets are used to estimate the amount of water changing temperature and salinity at the sea-surface owing to air-sea exchanges. Considering this conversion as a function of sea-surface temperature and salinity leads to the definition of a conversion vector, which represents mass sources and sinks for each water type. The vector representation shows graphically the way the shape of the temperature-salinity relation is driven at the surface by the air-sea heat and fresh water fluxes. |
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