Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The distribution of dissolved silica in the deep western North Atlantic Ocean
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe distribution of dissolved silica in the deep western North Atlantic Ocean is presented. The potential temperature-dissolved silica relationship is compared with the potential temperature salinity relationship in the North Atlantic Deep Water. Geographical variations in the potential temperature- dissolved silica relationship are discussed with particular emphasis on the low silica signal of the Western Boundary Undercurrent (WBUC). The WBUC is shown to have a significant influence on the potential temperature-dissolved silica relationship from the tail of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras. It is suggested that a region of enhanced mixing is present west of 65°W that is responsible for the observed changes in the dissolved silica distribution.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1978
Author and committee
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- Needell, Gerald J.
Subjects
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- Language dc:language.iso
- en_US
Identifiers
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- oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/1719