SGER - Tracing a Thermohaline Anomaly in the Tropical Circulation

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA

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Abstract

ABSTRACT 0084700 Four hydrographic sections straddling the deep western boundary current in the tropical North Atlantic will be made in an effort to locate a rapidly propagating pulse of Labrador Sea water traveling down the western boundary of the Atlantic. This transient was generated when Labrador Sea water production intensified in the late 1980's. The objective is to obtain a quantitative estimate of the speed with which the deep ocean conveys information about climate anomalies in high latitudes to the tropics.