The 18° water in the Sargasso Sea

Worthington. (1953). The 18° water in the Sargasso Sea.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1953

ISSN

0146-6313

DOI

10.1016/0146-6313(58)90026-1

DOI registrant

Elsevier

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0146-6313(58)90026-1

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Domain-specific

• Ekman Pumping
  • Subtropical-gyre ventilation — anticyclonic wind-stress curl pumping water downward (~20–40 m/yr), deepening the thermocline, forming mode water (Sargasso 18 °C water)

    This sourceThe classic identification and description of Eighteen Degree Water as the Sargasso Sea mode water formed by wintertime convection in the subtropical gyre.

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