South Atlantic meridional fluxes

• Published in: Deep-sea research. Part I, Oceanographic research papers Vol. 71; pp. 21 - 32
• Main Authors: Garzoli, Silvia L., Baringer, Molly O., Dong, Shenfu, Perez, Renellys C., Yao, Qi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2013; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: AMOC; Boundaries; Brazil; Circulation; Correlation analysis; Earth, ocean, space; Estimates; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Feedback; Fluxes; Freshwater ecology; Heat fluxes; Heat transfer; Marine; Mathematical models; Oceanography; Parameter estimation; Physics of the oceans; South Atlantic circulation; Thermohaline structure and circulation. Turbulence and diffusion; Transport; South Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean; South Atlantic region; ISW, West Indian Ocean, Agulhas Current; AS, South Atlantic; ASW, Atlantic, Brazil Current; ASE, South Atlantic, Benguela Current; South Atlantic circulation; AMOC; Heat fluxes; time series analysis; Hydrographic survey; Meridional circulation; Drifting float; Meridional overturning circulation; Heat mass transfer; Profiling float; thermohaline circulation; Observation data; Measuring network; ocean circulation; Expendable bathythermograph

The properties of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) and associated meridional heat transport (MHT) and salt fluxes are analyzed in the South Atlantic. The oceanographic data used for the study consist of Expendable bathythermograph (XBT) data collected along 27 sections at nominally 35°S...