The variability of sea surface temperature in the Patagonian Shelf Argentina, from 35 years of satellite information

Allega, Lucrecia; Pisoni, Juan Pablo; Cozzolino, Ezequiel; Maenza, Reinaldo A.

doi:10.1080/01431161.2021.1934600

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“…Based on data from these two campaigns, the temperature records were 0.5-1 °C higher than those previously described by Fernández et al (2005) (Table 2). This is consistent with previous observations on the variability of the system (Allega et al 2021;Bodnariuk et al 2021). On the other hand, salinity values (33.15 to 33.44) were lower than those described by Fernández et al (2005) (33.48 to 33.66), but followed a similar pattern of variation (Table 2).…”

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Southern coastal system of the San Jorge Gulf during spring

2023

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A��. The San Jorge Gulf was declared an area of national economic, commercial, conservation and diversity interest. To contribute to its study, the southern coastal sector of the gulf was characterised in physical and chemical parameters in spring campaigns (November 2016 and 2017). Samples were taken on board the oceanographic vessel Puerto Deseado in three perpendicular to the coast transects and another one to the southeast of the gulf, which crosses a thermohaline front. The perpendicular to the coast transects showed a similar pa�ern of distribution of physical and chemical properties in the water column. At nearshore stations, the water column was homogeneous and the nutrient concentrations between the surface and bo�om layers were similar. At offshore stations, the water column was stratified and the nutrient concentrations were higher near the bo�om than at surface. In 2016, a wind induced upwelling front was observed in the southwest of the gulf. Both sides of the thermohaline front did not show significant chemical differences. Throughout the study area, silicic acid and nitrate limited primary production. Satellite chlorophyll-a data and fluorescence profiles showed that the southern sector of the gulf has a high biomass of phytoplankton during November. We conclude that the southern sector of the SJG has different features depending on the external forcing caused by the front. The presence of fronts stimulates the growth of phytoplankton biomass through the injection of nutrients from the homogeneous part to the stratified sector. This would affect phytoplankton community and, thus, the productivity of the system.

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Southern coastal system of the San Jorge Gulf during spring

2023

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“…Along Remote Sens. 2024, 16, 1578. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16091578 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing salinity fronts in the subtropics, warm and salty subtropical waters meet colder, fresher subpolar waters of similar density; thus, these fronts are partly or completely density compensated. In the tropics, copious rains and freshwater discharges from great rivers produce surface water masses of low density; therefore, salinity fronts in the tropics often feature strong density gradients.…”

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Salinity Fronts in the South Atlantic

Belkin,

Shen

2024

Remote Sensing

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Monthly climatology data for salinity fronts in the South Atlantic have been created from satellite SMOS sea surface salinity (SSS) measurements taken from 2011–2019, processed at the Barcelona Expert Center of Remote Sensing (BEC), and provided as high-resolution (1/20°) daily SSS data. The SSS fronts have been identified with narrow zones of enhanced horizontal gradient magnitude (GM) of SSS, computed using the Belkin–O’Reilly algorithm (BOA). The SSS gradient fields generated by the BOA have been log-transformed to facilitate feature recognition. The log-transformation of SSS gradients markedly improved the visual contrast of gradient maps, which in turn allowed new features to be revealed and previously known features to be documented with a monthly temporal resolution and a mesoscale (~100 km) spatial resolution. Monthly climatologies were generated and analyzed for large-scale open-ocean SSS fronts and for low-salinity regions maintained by the Rio de la Plata discharge, Magellan Strait outflow, Congo River discharge, and Benguela Upwelling. A 2000 km-long triangular area between Africa and Brazil was found to be filled with regular quasi-meridional mesoscale striations that form a giant ripple field with a 100 km wave length. South of the Tropical Front, within the subtropical high-salinity pool, a trans-ocean quasi-zonal narrow linear belt of meridional SSS maximum (Smax) was documented. The meridional Smax belt shifts north–south seasonally while retaining its well-defined linear morphology, which is suggestive of a yet unidentified mechanism that maintains this feature. The Subtropical Frontal Zone (STFZ) consists of two tenuously connected fronts, western and eastern. The Brazil Current Front (BCF) extends SE between 40 and 45°S to join the subantarctic front (SAF). The STFZ trends NW–SE across the South Atlantic, seemingly merging with the SAF/BCF south of Africa to form a single front between 40 and 45°S. In the SW Atlantic, the Rio de la Plata plume migrates seasonally, expanding northward in winter (June–July) from 39°S into the South Brazilian Bight, up to Cabo Frio (23°S) and beyond. The inner Plata front moves in and out seasonally. Farther south, the Magellan Strait outflow expands northward in winter (June–July) from 53°S up to 39–40°S to nearly join the Plata outflow. In the SE Atlantic, the Congo River plume spreads radially from the river mouth, with the spreading direction varying seasonally. The plume is often bordered from the south by a quasi-zonal front along 6°S. The diluted Congo River water spreads southward seasonally down to the Angola–Benguela Front at 16°S. The Benguela Upwelling is delineated by a meridional front, which extends north alongshore up to 20°S, where the low-salinity Benguela Upwelling water forms a salinity front, which is separate from the thermal Angola–Benguela Front at 16°S. The high-salinity tropical water (“Angola water”) forms a wedge between the low-salinity waters of the Congo River outflow and Benguela Upwelling. This high-salinity wedge is bordered by salinity fronts that migrate north–south seasonally.

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