The Freshwater Balance Over the North Atlantic SPURS Domain from Aquarius Satellite Salinity, OSCAR Satellite Surface Currents, and Some Simplified Approaches

Within the North Atlantic subtropical gyre lies a salinity maximum region, relatively constant in time, yet forced by a seasonally varying strong evaporation zone located several degrees south and advected by wind-driven Ekman currents and geostrophic gyre currents and eddies. Large-scale calculatio...

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Published in:	Oceanography
Main Authors:	Kathleen Dohan, Hsun-Ying Kao, Gary Lagerloef
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Oceanography Society 2015-03-01
Subjects:	SPURS ocean salinity North Atlantic Aquarius satellite surface freshwater balance salinity maximum
Online Access:	http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/28-1_dohan.pdf