Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution September 2005 A moored profiler record from the western tropical North Atlantic provides the first continuous time series of temperatu...
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ftwhoas:oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/1639 2023-05-15T17:29:30+02:00 Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers Stuebe, David Allen Western tropical North Atlantic 2005-09 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1639 en_US eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI Theses https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1639 doi:10.1575/1912/1639 doi:10.1575/1912/1639 Ocean temperature Salinity Thesis 2005 ftwhoas https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/1639 2022-05-28T22:57:19Z Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution September 2005 A moored profiler record from the western tropical North Atlantic provides the first continuous time series of temperature, salinity and velocity profiles in a thermohaline staircase. Variations in the intensity of layering and the evolution of layer properties are well documented during the 4.3 month record. Such staircases are the result of strong salt fingering at the interfaces between the mixed layers, and these data provide unique insights into the dynamics of salt fingers. In particular, a striking linear correlation between the temperature and salinity of the layers may be interpreted as resulting from vertical salt finger flux divergences. Data from this record allow new interpretations of previous work on this topic by McDougall (1991). This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under grants OCE-0081502 and OCE-0350743 Thesis North Atlantic Woods Hole Scientific Community: WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server) Woods Hole, MA |
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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution September 2005 A moored profiler record from the western tropical North Atlantic provides the first continuous time series of temperature, salinity and velocity profiles in a thermohaline staircase. Variations in the intensity of layering and the evolution of layer properties are well documented during the 4.3 month record. Such staircases are the result of strong salt fingering at the interfaces between the mixed layers, and these data provide unique insights into the dynamics of salt fingers. In particular, a striking linear correlation between the temperature and salinity of the layers may be interpreted as resulting from vertical salt finger flux divergences. Data from this record allow new interpretations of previous work on this topic by McDougall (1991). This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under grants OCE-0081502 and OCE-0350743 |
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Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers |
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Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers |
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Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers |
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Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers |
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Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers |
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temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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2005 |
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Western tropical North Atlantic |
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North Atlantic |
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WHOI Theses https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1639 doi:10.1575/1912/1639 |
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