| Summary: | This dataset presents two important variables across the shelfbreak in the Northwest Atlantic: (i) Warm Core Ring Occupancy in the Slope sea proximate to the shelfbreak; and (ii) locations of Salinity maximum intrusions in the shelf. Monthly fields of both of these fields together are presented for the period 1990-2019 with file name format smax_ring_mm_yyyy.jpg. The gray and red dots on the shelf represent locations of profiles taken from the Ecosystem Monitoring Program’s (EcoMon) hydrographic data (available from the National Centers for Environmental Information World Ocean Database accessible at www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/world-ocean-database ). Red dots show locations of profiles which contained mid-depth salinity maximum intrusions, gray dots are profiles without any mid-depth salinity maximum intrusion. Profiles with intrusions were identified using the methodology of Gawarkiewicz et al., 2022. The ring occupancy was calculated from a Warm Core Ring Tracking dataset with ring tracks from 2000-2010 and 2011- 2020 available from Zenodo ( https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6436380 , https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7406675 ) and ring trajectories from1978 through 1999 available from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada. To calculate the ring occupancy the region was sub-divided into 0.1 by 0.1 degree bins. Ring trajectories and approximate geographical range (calculated from the ring area, assuming the ring is a perfect circle) were overlain on this region and the days rings are present in each bin are counted in units of ring days. A ring day is the presence of one single ring in a bin during a given day. These ring day counts were converted to percentages, dividing by days in the given month and multiplying by 100. For more details see Silver et al., 2022 and Salois et al., 2023. From these figures one can see the spatial relationship between Warm Core Rings and Salinity Maximum Intrusions, with clusters of intrusions occurring in areas adjacent to high ring occupancy. An animation of two particular ...
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