Search Results - "Journal of geophysical research. Oceans"

A Global Perspective on Microplastics by Hale, Robert C., Seeley, Meredith E., La Guardia, Mark J., Mai, Lei, Zeng, Eddy Y.

“…Society has become increasingly reliant on plastics since commercial production began in about 1950. Their versatility, stability, light weight, and low…”
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Understanding Arctic Ocean Circulation: A Review of Ocean Dynamics in a Changing Climate by Timmermans, Mary‐Louise, Marshall, John

“…The Arctic Ocean is a focal point of climate change, with ocean warming, freshening, sea‐ice decline, and circulation that link to the changing atmospheric and…”
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Thinning and volume loss of the Arctic Ocean sea ice cover: 2003–2008 by Kwok, R., Cunningham, G. F., Wensnahan, M., Rigor, I., Zwally, H. J., Yi, D.

“…We present our best estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover from 10 Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) campaigns that…”
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Oceanographic Controls on the Variability of Ice‐Shelf Basal Melting and Circulation of Glacial Meltwater in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica by Kimura, Satoshi, Jenkins, Adrian, Regan, Heather, Holland, Paul R., Assmann, Karen M., Whitt, Daniel B., Van Wessem, Melchoir, van de Berg, Willem Jan, Reijmer, Carleen H., Dutrieux, Pierre

“…Ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea Embayment have thinned, accelerating the seaward flow of ice sheets upstream over recent decades. This imbalance is caused by…”
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The Observed Seasonal Cycle of Submesoscale Processes in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone by Biddle, L. C., Swart, S.

“…Submesoscale flows are energetic processes in the upper ocean that occur at scales of a few kilometers. These phenomena are important to climate because they…”
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Chlorophyll a algorithms for oligotrophic oceans: A novel approach based on three-band reflectance difference by CHUANMIN HU, ZHONGPING LEE, FRANZ, Bryan

“…A new empirical algorithm is proposed to estimate surface chlorophyll a (Chl) concentrations in the global ocean for Chl ≤ 0.25 mg m −3 (∼78% of the global…”
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Direct estimates of the Indonesian Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean: 2004–2006 by Sprintall, Janet, Wijffels, Susan E., Molcard, Robert, Jaya, Indra

“…The mean and variable transport of the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) are determined from full‐depth velocity measurements in the three major exit passages of…”
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El Niño Modoki and its possible teleconnection by Ashok, Karumuri, Behera, Swadhin K., Rao, Suryachandra A., Weng, Hengyi, Yamagata, Toshio

“…Using observed data sets mainly for the period 1979–2005, we find that anomalous warming events different from conventional El Niño events occur in the central…”
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Coastal Upwelling Revisited: Ekman, Bakun, and Improved Upwelling Indices for the U.S. West Coast by Jacox, Michael G., Edwards, Christopher A., Hazen, Elliott L., Bograd, Steven J.

“…Coastal upwelling is responsible for thriving marine ecosystems and fisheries that are disproportionately productive relative to their surface area,…”
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Enhanced warming of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean under climate change by Saba, Vincent S., Griffies, Stephen M., Anderson, Whit G., Winton, Michael, Alexander, Michael A., Delworth, Thomas L., Hare, Jonathan A., Harrison, Matthew J., Rosati, Anthony, Vecchi, Gabriel A., Zhang, Rong

“…The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fifth assessment of projected global and regional ocean temperature change is based on global climate…”
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Stirring of Sea‐Ice Meltwater Enhances Submesoscale Fronts in the Southern Ocean by Giddy, I., Swart, S., du Plessis, M., Thompson, A. F., Nicholson, S.‐A.

“…In the sea‐ice‐impacted Southern Ocean, the spring sea‐ice melt and its impact on physical processes set the rate of surface water mass modification. These…”
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Beaufort Gyre freshwater reservoir: State and variability from observations by Proshutinsky, Andrey, Krishfield, Richard, Timmermans, Mary-Louise, Toole, John, Carmack, Eddy, McLaughlin, Fiona, Williams, William J., Zimmermann, Sarah, Itoh, Motoyo, Shimada, Koji

“…We investigate basin‐scale mechanisms regulating anomalies in freshwater content (FWC) in the Beaufort Gyre (BG) of the Arctic Ocean using historical…”
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Analysis of the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Content in 2003–2018 by Proshutinsky, A., Krishfield, R., Toole, J. M., Timmermans, M.‐L., Williams, W., Zimmermann, S., Yamamoto‐Kawai, M., Armitage, T. W. K., Dukhovskoy, D., Golubeva, E., Manucharyan, G. E., Platov, G., Watanabe, E., Kikuchi, T., Nishino, S., Itoh, M., Kang, S.‐H., Cho, K.‐H., Tateyama, K., Zhao, J.

“…Hydrographic data collected from research cruises, bottom‐anchored moorings, drifting Ice‐Tethered Profilers, and satellite altimetry in the Beaufort Gyre…”
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EN4: Quality controlled ocean temperature and salinity profiles and monthly objective analyses with uncertainty estimates by Good, Simon A., Martin, Matthew J., Rayner, Nick A.

“…We present version 4 of the Met Office Hadley Centre “EN” series of data sets of global quality controlled ocean temperature and salinity profiles and monthly…”
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Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR-E 89-GHz channels by Spreen, G., Kaleschke, L., Heygster, G.

“…Recent progress in sea ice concentration remote sensing by satellite microwave radiometers has been stimulated by two developments: First, the new sensor…”
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Stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A Review and Synthesis by Weijer, W., Cheng, W., Drijfhout, S. S., Fedorov, A. V., Hu, A., Jackson, L. C., Liu, W., McDonagh, E. L., Mecking, J. V., Zhang, J.

“…The notion that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) can have more than one stable equilibrium emerged in the 1980s as a powerful hypothesis…”
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Variability and Trends in the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: Results from Different Techniques by Comiso, Josefino C., Meier, Walter N., Gersten, Robert

“…Variability and trend studies of sea ice in the Arctic have been conducted using products derived from the same raw passive microwave data but by different…”
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Biogeochemical sensor performance in the SOCCOM profiling float array by Johnson, Kenneth S., Plant, Joshua N., Coletti, Luke J., Jannasch, Hans W., Sakamoto, Carole M., Riser, Stephen C., Swift, Dana D., Williams, Nancy L., Boss, Emmanuel, Haëntjens, Nils, Talley, Lynne D., Sarmiento, Jorge L.

“…The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) program has begun deploying a large array of biogeochemical sensors on profiling…”
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Variability of Dissolved Organic Matter Sources in the Upper Eurasian Arctic Ocean by Kong, Xianyu, Granskog, Mats A., Hoppe, Clara J. M., Fong, Allison A., Stedmon, Colin A., Tippenhauer, Sandra, Ulfsbo, Adam, Vredenborg, Myriel, Koch, Boris P.

“…Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is a ubiquitous component in marine environments, and substantial changes in its sources and distribution, related…”
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The Role of Ekman Currents, Geostrophy, and Stokes Drift in the Accumulation of Floating Microplastic by Onink, Victor, Wichmann, David, Delandmeter, Philippe, Sebille, Erik

“…Floating microplastic in the oceans is known to accumulate in the subtropical ocean gyres, but unclear is still what causes that accumulation. We investigate…”
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