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TI Salty anomalies forced by Tehuantepec and Papagayo gap winds: Aquarius observations
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AF GRODSKY, Semyon A.
   CARTON, James A.
   BENTAMY, Abderrahim
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;
FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-ODE-LOS;
C1 Univ Maryland, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.
   Ctr Bretagne ZI Pointe du Diable, Inst Francais Rech & Exploitat Mer, Plouzane, France.
C2 UNIV MARYLAND, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LOS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 1.573
TC 2
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00211/32184/30751.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB In the presence of stable near-surface haline stratification, intermittent cold sea surface temperature (SST, upwelling) events produced by gap winds off the Central American Pacific coast should be accompanied by uplifts of saltier water. We illustrate that Aquarius satellite sea surface salinity (SSS) captures these high SSS events. In boreal winter when the intense gap winds are frequent, two tongues of anomalously salty water develop off the Gulfs of Tehuantepec and Papagayo. During that season the average SSS in the meridionally oriented Tehuantepec tongue is about 0.4 psu saltier than the background SSS. The zonally elongated Papagayo tongue stands out even more strongly, being 1-2 psu saltier than SSS in the neighbouring Panama Bight. The spatial locations and orientations of the salty tongues closely correspond to the locations and orientations of the cool SST tongues, suggesting they have similar governing mechanisms.
PY 2014
SO Remote Sensing Letters
SN 2150-704X
PU Taylor & Francis Ltd
VL 5
IS 6
UT 000340477200002
BP 568
EP 574
DI 10.1080/2150704X.2014.935522
ID 32184
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