From Salty to Fresh—Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study-2 (SPURS-2): Diagnosing the Physics of a Rainfall-Dominated Salinity Minimum

From Salty to Fresh—Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study-2 (SPURS-2): Diagnosing the Physics of a Rainfall-Dominated Salinity Minimum

One of the notable features of the global ocean is that the salinity of the North Atlantic is about 1 psu higher than that of the North Pacific. This contrast is thought to be due to one of the large asymmetries in the global water cycle: the transport of water vapor by the trade winds across Centra...

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Main Authors: Raymond Schmitt, William Asher, Frederick Bingham, James Carton, Luca Centurioni, J. Thomas Farrar, Arnold Gordon, Benjamin Hodges, Andrew Jessup, William Kessler, Luc Rainville, Andrey Shcherbina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2015-03-01
Series:Oceanography
Subjects:
SPURS
ocean salinity
North Pacific
ocean rainfall
SPURS-2
Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/28-1_spurs-2.pdf

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