Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002georl..29w..62g&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 29, Issue 23, pp. 62-1, CiteID 2147, DOI 10.1029/2002GL015788
Physics
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Oceanography: General: Equatorial Oceanography, Oceanography: General: Upwelling And Convergences, Oceanography: Physical: Currents, Oceanography: Physical: General Circulation
Scientific paper
Subtropical cells (STCs) connect subduction zones of the eastern subtropics of both hemispheres to the equatorial current systems via equatorward flow in the thermocline. Some of this thermocline water is converted back into warm near-surface water in the eastern equatorial cold tongue from whence it is exported poleward. Here we examine the export pathways from the cold tongue in the Atlantic based on recently available near-surface drifter data. We find that, similar to its Pacific counterpart, water upwelled in the Atlantic cold tongue follows multiple pathways back into the subtropics, but not directly to the subduction zones. Thus the subtropical cells are open to extensive influence from, and exchange with, the subtropical and midlatitude ocean.
Carton James A.
Grodsky Semyon A.
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