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    Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers

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    Date
    2005-09
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    Stuebe, David Allen  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1639
    Location
    Western tropical North Atlantic
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/1639
    Keyword
     Ocean temperature; Salinity 
    Abstract
    A moored profiler record from the western tropical North Atlantic provides the first continuous time series of temperature, salinity and velocity profiles in a thermohaline staircase. Variations in the intensity of layering and the evolution of layer properties are well documented during the 4.3 month record. Such staircases are the result of strong salt fingering at the interfaces between the mixed layers, and these data provide unique insights into the dynamics of salt fingers. In particular, a striking linear correlation between the temperature and salinity of the layers may be interpreted as resulting from vertical salt finger flux divergences. Data from this record allow new interpretations of previous work on this topic by McDougall (1991).
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    Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution September 2005
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    Thesis: Stuebe, David Allen, "Temperature and salinity variability in thermohaline staircase layers", 2005-09, DOI:10.1575/1912/1639, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/1639
     

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