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RISHow Well Do Climate Models Reproduce North Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ormation and the subsequent evolution of the subtropical mode water (STMW) involve various dynamic and thermodynamic processes. Proper representation of mode water variability and contributions from various processes in ...
Heat Budget in the Gulf Stream Region: The Importance of Heat Storage and Advection
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A simple three-dimensional thermodynamic model is used to study the heat balance in the Gulf Stream region (30°?45°N, 40°?75°W) during the period from November 1992 to December 1999. The model is forced by surface heat ...
Location of the Antarctic Polar Front from AMSR-E Satellite Sea Surface Temperature Measurements
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The location of the Southern Ocean polar front (PF) is mapped from the first 3 yr of remotely sensed Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sea surface temperature (SST) measurements. ...
An Assessment of the Southern Ocean Mixed Layer Heat Budget
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The mixed layer heat balance in the Southern Ocean is examined by combining remotely sensed measurements and in situ observations from 1 June 2002 to 31 May 2006, coinciding with the period during which Advanced Microwave ...
The Role of Interocean Exchanges on Decadal Variations of the Meridional Heat Transport in the South Atlantic
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he interocean exchange of water from the South Atlantic with the Pacific and Indian Oceans is examined using the output from the ocean general circulation model for the Earth Simulator (OFES) during the period 1980?2006. ...
Gulf Stream Variability and Ocean–Atmosphere Interactions
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Time series of Gulf Stream position derived from the TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter from October 1992 to November 1998 are used to investigate the lead and lag relation between the Gulf Stream path as it leaves the continental ...
Interannual Variations in Upper-Ocean Heat Content and Heat Transport Convergence in the Western North Atlantic
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Subsurface temperature data in the western North Atlantic Ocean are analyzed to study the variations in the heat content above a fixed isotherm and contributions from surface heat fluxes and oceanic processes. The study ...
The complementary value of XBT and Argo observations to monitor ocean boundary currents and meridional heat and volume transports: A case study in the Atlantic Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This work assesses the value of expendable bathythermograph (XBT) and Argo profiling float observations to monitor the Atlantic Ocean boundary current systems (BCS), meridional overturning circulation (MOC), and meridional ...
Multidecadal Covariability of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature, African Dust, Sahel Rainfall, and Atlantic Hurricanes
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ost studies of African dust and North Atlantic climate have been limited to the short time period since the satellite era (1980 onward), precluding the examination of their relationship on longer time scales. Here a new ...
An Updated Estimate of Salinity for the Atlantic Ocean Sector Using Temperature–Salinity Relationships
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractSimultaneous temperature and salinity profile measurements are of extreme importance for research; operational oceanography; research and applications that compute content and transport of mass, heat, and freshwater ...