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| Brion, Emilie; Gaillard, Fabienne; Petit De La Villeon, Loic; Delcroix, Thierry; Alory, Gael; Reverdin, Gilles. |
| Providing reliable in-situ surface temperature and salinity data over the global ocean within short delay is critical for the calibration and validation of the recently launched Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS). The work presented here has been undertaken as a contribution to GLOSCAL (Global Ocean Surface Salinity Calibration and Validation), retained as one of the ESA CalVal Projects. Based on the Coriolis datasets and using In Situ Analysis System (ISAS) tool, a near real time analysis system has been developed. It provides gridded fields of sea surface salinity and temperature and the corresponding in-situ dataset. In addition to research activities, these products would be used to help the quality control of SMOS satellite data, and to... |
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| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00114/22548/20229.pdf |
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| Assene, Fernand; Morel, Yves; Delpech, Audrey; Aguedjou, Micael; Jouanno, Julien; Cravatte, Sophie; Marin, Frederic; Ménesguen, Claire; Chaigneau, Alexis; Dadou, Isabelle; Alory, Gael; Holmes, Ryan; Bourlès, Bernard; Koch-larrouy, Ariane. |
| In this paper, we analyse the results from a numerical model at high resolution. We focus on the formation and maintenance of subsurface equatorial currents in the Gulf of Guinea and we base our analysis on the evolution of potential vorticity (PV). We highlight the link between submesoscale processes (involving mixing, friction and filamentation), mesoscale vortices and the mean currents in the area. In the simulation, eastward currents, the South and North Equatorial Undercurrents (SEUC and NEUC respectively) and the Guinea Undercurrent (GUC), are shown to be linked to the westward currents located equatorward. We show that east of 20∘ W, both westward and eastward currents are associated with the spreading of PV tongues by mesoscale vortices. The... |
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Palavras-chave: Equatorial atlantic; NEUC (North Equatorial Undercurrents); SEUC (South Equatorial Undercurrents); Vortices; Mixing; Friction. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00645/75697/76601.pdf |
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| Reul, Nicolas; Fournier, Severine; Boutin, Jacqueline; Hernandez, Olga; Maes, Christophe; Chapron, Bertrand; Alory, Gael; Quilfen, Yves; Tenerelli, Joseph; Morisset, Simmon; Kerr, Yann; Mecklenburg, Susanne; Delwart, Steven. |
| While it is well known that the ocean is one of the most important component of the climate system, with a heat capacity 1,100 times greater than the atmosphere, the ocean is also the primary reservoir for freshwater transport to the atmosphere and largest component of the global water cycle. Two new satellite sensors, the ESA Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and the NASA Aquarius SAC-D missions, are now providing the first space-borne measurements of the sea surface salinity (SSS). In this paper, we present examples demonstrating how SMOS-derived SSS data are being used to better characterize key land–ocean and atmosphere–ocean interaction processes that occur within the marine hydrological cycle. In particular, SMOS with its ocean mapping... |
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Palavras-chave: Sea surface salinity; SMOS satellite; Passive microwave remote sensing; Oceanic freshwater cycle. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00152/26334/24430.pdf |
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| Alory, Gael; Maes, Christophe; Delcroix, Thierry; Reul, Nicolas; Illig, Serena. |
| The freshest surface waters in the tropical Pacific are found at its eastern boundary. Using in situ observations, we depict the quasi-permanent presence of a far eastern Pacific fresh pool with Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) lower than 33, which is confined between Panama's west coast and 85W in December and extends westward to 95W in April. Strong SSS fronts are found at the outer edge of this fresh pool. We investigate the seasonal dynamics of the fresh pool using complementary satellite wind, rain, sea level and in situ oceanic current data at the surface, along with hydrographic profiles. The fresh pool appears off Panama due to the strong summer rains associated with the northward migration of the ITCZ over Central America in June. During the second half... |
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| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00072/18311/16581.pdf |
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| Durand, F; Alory, Gael; Dussin, Raphael; Reul, Nicolas. |
| The tropical Indian Ocean experiences an interannual mode of climatic variability, known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). The signature of this variability in ocean salinity is hypothesized based on modeling and assimilation studies, on account of scanty observations. Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has been designed to take up the challenge of sea surface salinity remote sensing. We show that SMOS data can be used to infer the pattern of salinity variability linked with the IOD events. The core of maximum variability is located in the central tropical basin, south of the equator. This region is anomalously salty during the 2010 negative IOD event, and anomalously fresh during the 2011 positive IOD event. The peak-to-peak anomaly exceeds... |
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Palavras-chave: SSS; Indian Ocean Dipole; SMOS; ARGO; ENSO. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00161/27234/25481.pdf |
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| Reverdin, Gilles; Morisset, Simon; Marie, Louis; Bourras, Denis; Sutherland, Graigory; Ward, Brian; Salvador, Joaquin; Font, Jordi; Cuypers, Yannis; Centurioni, Luca; Hormann, Verena; Koldziejczyk, Nicolas; Boutin, Jacqueline; D'Ovidio, Francesco; Nencioli, Francesco; Martin, Nicolas; Diverres, Denis; Alory, Gael; Lumpkin, Rick. |
| We investigated a 100 x 100 km high-salinity region of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre during the Sub-Tropical Atlantic Surface Salinity Experiment/Salinity Processes in the Upper-ocean Regional Study (STRASSE/SPURS) cruise from August 21, 2012, to September 9, 2012. Results showed great variability in sea surface salinity (SSS; over 0.3 psu) in the mesoscale, over 7 cm of total evaporation, and little diapycnal mixing below 36 m depth, the deepest mixed layers encountered. Strong currents in the southwestern part of the domain, and the penetration of freshwater, suggest that advection contributed greatly to salinity evolution. However, it was further observed that a smaller cyclonic structure tucked between the high SSS band and the strongest currents... |
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| Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00270/38148/36277.pdf |
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