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| Grodsky, Semyon A.; Reul, Nicolas; Chapron, Bertrand; Carton, James A.; Bryan, Frank O.. |
| Sea surface salinity (SSS) from the Aquarius and SMOS satellite missions displays a steady increase of ~1psu over the entire northwestern Atlantic shelf south of Nova Scotia during the 2011-2015. Put in the context of longer ocean profile data the results suggest that mixed layer salinity and temperature north of the Gulf Stream experience positively correlated shelf-wide interannual oscillations (1psu/2degC). Salty and warm events occur coincident with anomalous easterly-southeasterly winds and Ekman transport counteracting the mean southwestward shelf currents. They are coincident with the weakening of both branches of the Scotian Shelf Current (SSC), but only moderately correlate with shifts of the Gulf Stream North Wall. This suggests that salt... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Salinity; Interannual; Satellite. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00376/48736/49100.pdf |
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