FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI The Eastern Boundary of the Subtropical North Atlantic
BT 
AF ARHAN, Michel
   COLIN DE VERDIERE, Alain
   MEMERY, L
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;
FF 1:;2:;3:;
C1 UNIV PLOUZANE,IFREMER,CTR BREST,PHYS OCEANS LAB,CNRS,UNITE MIXTE,BP 70,F-29280 PLOUZANE,FRANCE.
   UNIV BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE,IFREMER,PHYS OCEANS LAB,CNRS,UNITE MIXTE,BREST,FRANCE.
   UNIV PARIS 06,LODYC,PARIS,FRANCE.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
SI BREST
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
IF 1.948
TC 148
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00196/30717/29449.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR BORD-EST 2 LEG 1
   BORD-EST 2 LEG 2
   BORD-EST 2 LEG 3
   BORD-EST 3
BO Jean Charcot
   Le Noroit
AB A quasi-meridional hydrographic section carried out between 60-degrees and 20-degrees-N offshore from the European and African continental slopes is analyzed in terms of water masses and zonal transports in and out of the eastern boundary. Outstanding features of the meridional distribution of water masses are focused on, such as the transition between North Atlantic and South Atlantic Central Waters at 20-degrees-25-degrees-N, the properties and anticyclonic circulation of the Rockall Channel mode water, and the northern boundary of the large-scale Mediterranean Water plume at about 50-degrees-N. An eastward transport of about 11 X 10(6) m3 s-1 is found to enter the eastern boundary layer at densities lower than 27.25 and feed southward alongshore currents. The relation of the incoming transport to the water mass distribution and its eventual splitting into several outflowing components are discussed. Apart from the downward entrainment of upper water known to occur in the Gulf of Cadiz, there is no sign of the so-called ''eastern boundary ventilation'' mechanism in the central water density range. Yet a significant transport is found to escape the winter mixed layer toward the interior of the subtropical gyre, suggesting the horizontal southward currents across the sloping bottom of the mixed layer to be the main cause of ventilation at the eastern boundary.
PY 1994
PD JUL
SO Journal Of Physical Oceanography
SN 0022-3670
PU Amer Meteorological Soc
VL 24
IS 6
UT A1994NT49200013
BP 1295
EP 1316
DI 10.1175/1520-0485(1994)024<1295:TEBOTS>2.0.CO;2
ID 30717
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