Volumetric Characterization of the South Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water Types

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero S. Bernardo ◽  
Olga T. Sato
Keyword(s):  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Mode Water ◽  
Water Types ◽  
Subtropical Mode Water

On the influence of Subtropical Mode Water on the South Atlantic Ocean

2018 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Gerard Quadros de Souza ◽  
Rodrigo Kerr ◽  
José Luiz Lima de Azevedo
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
South Atlantic Ocean ◽  
The South ◽  
Mode Water ◽  
Subtropical Mode Water

scholarly journals Structure and Modification of the South Pacific Eastern Subtropical Mode Water

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 1700-1714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanako Sato ◽  
Toshio Suga
Keyword(s):  
Potential Vorticity ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Mode Water ◽  
Argo Data ◽  
Formation Region ◽  
Subtropical Mode Water ◽  
Vertical Changes ◽  
Salt Fingering ◽  
Vertical Gradients

Abstract Using all available temperature and salinity profiles obtained by Argo floats from July 2004 to June 2007, this study investigated the structure and modification of the South Pacific Eastern Subtropical Mode Water (SPESTMW). Based on the observed characteristics of the vertical minima of potential vorticity over the subtropical South Pacific, SPESTMW is defined as water with potential vorticity magnitude less than 2.5 × 10−10 m−1 s−1 and thickness exceeding 40 m. It is found between 35°–5°S and 160°–70°W and has a temperature of 13°–26°C, salinity greater than 34.0, and density of 24.5–25.8 kg m−3 at its core. This study confirmed that vertical changes in temperature and salinity tend to compensate for each other in terms of density changes, resulting in favorable salt fingering conditions, as previously reported. By analyzing many profiles of Argo data in spring immediately after the SPESTMW formation period, its temperature and salinity are vertically uniform in the formation region, but large vertical gradients of temperature and salinity are found downstream from that region, even in the SPESTMW core. Consequently, the low potential vorticity signature of SPESTMW spread much wider than its signature as a thermostad. The Argo data also captured the seasonal changes of the vertical gradients of temperature and salinity at the SPESTMW core; these gradients increased as the seasons progressed, even in the formation region. Therefore, SPESTMW is truly vertically uniform water (i.e., thermostad, halostad, and pycnostad simultaneously) only immediately after the formation period. Afterward, it is only pycnostad. This seasonal evolution is related to temperature and salinity diffusion due to salt fingering in a manner similar to the rapid modification of interannual anomalies as shown by previous research. The temperature and salinity near the SPESTMW core and lower region decreased soon after its formation.

The South Pacific Subtropical Mode Water in the Tasman Sea

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haibo Hu ◽  
Qinyu Liu ◽  
Xiaopei Lin ◽  
Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Mode Water ◽  
Subtropical Mode Water ◽  
Tasman Sea

scholarly journals Simulated response of South Atlantic Subtropical Mode Water to air-sea processes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piero Silveira Bernardo ◽  
Olga T. Sato ◽  
Andrea Sardinha Taschetto
Keyword(s):  
South Atlantic ◽  
Mode Water ◽  
Subtropical Mode Water
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