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The vertical thermohaline structure in the Argentine basin

 

作者: Gunnar I. Roden,  

 

期刊: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans  (WILEY Available online 1989)
卷期: Volume 94, issue C1  

页码: 877-896

 

ISSN:0148-0227

 

年代: 1989

 

DOI:10.1029/JC094iC01p00877

 

数据来源: WILEY

 

摘要:

The vertical thermohaline structure in the central Argentine basin is investigated on the basis of high‐resolution hydrographic data. Emphasis is placed on fronts, their horizontal gradients, vertical stability and associated fine structure. Horizontal thermohaline gradients vary strongly with depth, regions of strong gradients alternating with those of weak gradients. The strongest gradients occur often at depths below the upper mixed layer. The salinity gradient maximum occurs above the temperature gradient maximum. Enhanced gradients are found where warm, salty water moves over cooler, fresher water such as between the subtropical water (STW) and antarctic intermediate water (AAIW) and between the North Atlantic deep water (NADW) and the antarctic bottom water (AABW). Temperature, salinity, and density fronts do not always coexist. Density‐compensating temperature and salinity fronts occur in the surface layer of the subantarctic and at abyssal depth below 3500 m. Vertical profiles of the Väisälä frequency indicate much reduced hydrostatic stabilities in the Brazil current and subantarctic frontal zones. Potential vorticity minima indicate the formation of subantarctic mode water just north of the subantarctic front and its subsequent northward and upward spread across isopycnals. The thermohaline fine structure is vertically intermittent. The amplitude variances between the enhanced and quiet regions vary by almost 2 orders of magnitude. Enhanced fine structure amplitudes are found near the STW‐AAIW and NADW‐AABW interfaces, where large horizontal thermohaline gradients occur and the hydrostatic stability is low. The temperature and salinity fine structures are largely density compensating. The coherence between the temperature and salinity fine structure is strongly depth dependent and is highest in regions where warm, salty water moves over cooler, fre

 

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