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| Puillat, Ingrid; Lazure, Pascal; Jegou, Anne-marie; Lampert, Luis; Miller, P. |
| A synthesis of 9 years of hydrographic measurements, acquired during approximately 25 cruises (1992-2000) on the French continental shelf of the Bay of Biscay, is presented. The main focus is upon salinity distribution, as it is little known in this area. The whole of the data set covers I I months of the year, with some sampling fields repeated several times a year, for multiple years. This time-series allows temperature and salinity distributions to be studied together with their seasonal, inter-annual and mesoscale variability. The seasonal trend in temperature can be described in three stages, which are in agreement with past studies. Thermal stratification occurs between May and mid-September in a layer similar to 50 m in thickness, whereas the... |
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Palavras-chave: Upwelling; Cold pool; River plumes; Seasonal variability; Salinity; Hydrography. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2004/publication-779.pdf |
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| Puillat, I; Lazure, Pascal; Jegou, Anne-marie; Lampert, Luis; Miller, P. |
| On the French continental shelf of the Bay of Biscay the variability of the surface salinity distribution has been mainly investigated at the seasonal and inter-annual scales. Here, new mesoscale features such as lower-salinity lenses observed in model results are investigated by hydrological measurements acquired during 8 cruises (1997-2000). These lenses are 50-80 km wide and similar to 30 m thick and occur during westerly to northerly wind events that push offshore the less saline water of river Plumes. These water masses detached from the coast are replaced with upwelled saltier water at the coast, so coastal upwelling is often observed at the same time along Landes and southern Brittany coasts. We show that in addition to the influence of seasonal and... |
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Palavras-chave: River plume; Upwelling; Lens; Mesoscale; Salinity. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-3958.pdf |
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