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TI Role of fronts in the formation of Arabian Sea barrier layers during summer monsoon
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AF DE BOYER MONTEGUT, Clement
   DURAND, Fabien
   BOURDALLE-BADIE, Romain
   BLANKE, Bruno
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;
FF 1:PDG-ODE-LOS;2:;3:;4:;
C1 IFREMER, Ctr Brest, Lab Oceanog Spatiale, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   CNRS, CNES, IRD, UPS,IRD,LEGOS,UMR5566, F-31400 Toulouse, France.
   Mercator Ocean, F-31520 Ramonville St Agne, France.
   CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, UBO,Lab Phys Oceans,UMR 6523, Brest, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   IRD, FRANCE
   MERCATOR OCEAN, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LOS
   PDG-ODE-LPO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-p187
IF 1.943
TC 3
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00198/30959/29358.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Barrier layer;Arabian Sea;Summer monsoon;ARGO;ASHSW
AB The barrier layer (BL) - a salinity stratification embedded in the upper warm layer - is a common feature of the tropical oceans. In the northern Indian Ocean, it has the potential to significantly alter the air-sea interactions. In the present paper, we investigate the spatio-temporal structure of BL in the Arabian Sea during summer monsoon. This season is indeed a key component of the Asian climate. Based on a comprehensive dataset of Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) and Argo in situ hydrographic profiles, we find that a BL exists in the central Arabian Sea during summer. However, it is highly heterogeneous in space, and intermittent, with scales of about similar to 100 km or less and a couple of weeks. The BL patterns appear to be closely associated to the salinity front separating two water masses (Arabian Sea High Salinity Water in the Northern and Eastern part of the basin, fresher Bay of Bengal Water to the south and to the west). An ocean general circulation model is used to infer the formation mechanism of the BL. It appears that thick (more than 40 m) BL patterns are formed at the salinity front by subduction of the saltier water mass under the fresher one in an area of relatively uniform temperature. Those thick BL events, with variable position and timing, result in a broader envelope of thinner BL in climatological conditions. However, the individual patterns of BL are probably too much short-lived to significantly affect the monsoonal air-sea interactions.
PY 2014
PD JUL
SO Ocean Dynamics
SN 1616-7341
PU Springer Heidelberg
VL 64
IS 6
UT 000336981700004
BP 809
EP 822
DI 10.1007/s10236-014-0716-7
ID 30959
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