Argo floats revealing bimodality of large-scale mid-depth circulation in the North Atlantic

• 作 者: CHU Peter C IVANOV Leonid M ME
• 机 构: DepartmentofOceanography,InternationalPacificResearchCenter,InstituteofAtmosphericPhysics
• 出 处: 海洋学报：英文版
• 发表日期: 2008年2期
• 关键词: 大西洋 中尺度环流 生物特征 光谱分析 Argo trajectory data Atlantic Ocean biomodality mid-depth
• 基金项目: Foundation item ： The Naval Postgraduate School and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. This research was supported by the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Postgraduate School. Li

Analysis of Argo float trajectories at 1 000 m and temperature at 950 m in the North Atlantic between November 2003 and January 2005 demonstrates the existence of two different circulation modes with fast transition between them. Each mode has a pair of c