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| Maes, Christophe; Reul, Nicolas; Behringer, David; O'Kane, Terence. |
| The space-borne measurements of the SMOS mission reveal for the first time the complete features of the sea surface salinity (SSS) signature at the full scale of the Pacific basin. The SSS field in the equatorial cold tongue is typically found to be larger than 35.1 within a narrow 2° band of latitude that is positioned slightly south of the equator and that stretches across the eastern Pacific basin up to the Galapagos Islands. On the northern edge of the eastern equatorial Pacific this signature results in a very strong horizontal gradient (larger than 2 units over 100 km) with the fresh waters of the Panama warm pool. By considering a water density criterion, it can be shown that the cold tongue is characterized by a strong seasonal cycle with a 3°C... |
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Palavras-chave: Physical oceanography; Cold tongue; Salinity; Remote sensing data; Pacific ocean. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00245/35577/34109.pdf |
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