Large-Scale Structure of Thermal Fronts in the East Part of the Tropical Atlantic and Their Seasonal Variability |
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| Authors: | Yu V Artamonov E A Skripaleva |
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| Institution: | (1) Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Ukraine |
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| Abstract: | On the basis of the climatic array of hydrological annual and monthly average data on temperature and the data of satellite
observations of the surface temperature of the ocean, we refine the annual average structure of the temperature fronts and
study their seasonal variability in the east part of the Tropical Atlantic in the meridional sections made along 30, 20, and
10°W, 0°, and 10°E. It is shown that the maximum intensity and seasonal variations are typical of the North Subequatorial
and South Tropical Fronts varying with predominant annual period. We revealed a delay of 2–3 months in the attainment of the
maximum intensity of the South Tropical and South Subequatorial Fronts in the west-east direction. Various mechanisms specifying
the seasonal variability of the surface and subsurface North and South Subequatorial Fronts are discussed. There exists good
agreement between the specific features of the seasonal variability of characteristics of the fronts established according
to the hydrological and satellite data.
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Translated from Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Zhurnal, No. 2, pp. 46–59, March–April, 2005. |
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