Temperature as a passive isopycnal tracer in salty, spiceless oceans

Details Temperature as a passive isopycnal tracer in salty, spiceless oceans Temperature as a passive isopycnal tracer in salty, spiceless oceans

Oct 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29t..14s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 20, pp. 14-1, CiteID 1953, DOI 10.1029/2001GL014532

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Oceanography: General: Arctic And Antarctic Oceanography, Meteorology And Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology (1620), Oceanography: General: Estuarine Processes

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The decoupling between the gradients of temperature and density in cold, relatively fresh oceanic waters is discussed from a theoretical standpoint and furthermore demonstrated on the basis of observations from the Baltic Sea. Near the temperature of maximum density, the thermal expansion coefficient is effectively zero, hereby de facto making temperature a passive tracer. As a consequence, the baroclinic advection of heat anomalies is determined by freshwater gradients. Recognition of such dynamics could prove helpful for the understanding of a warmer, fresher future Arctic Ocean, as projected by the IPCC.

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