Temperature–salinity distribution in the northeastern Atlantic from ship and Argo vertical casts

Bashmachnikov, I.; Neves, F.; Nascimento, Â.; Medeiros, J.; Ambar, I.; Dias, J.; Carton, X.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-215-2015

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-215-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-215-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

Research article

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05 Mar 2015

Research article |

| 05 Mar 2015

Temperature–salinity distribution in the northeastern Atlantic from ship and Argo vertical casts

I. Bashmachnikov, F. Neves, Â. Nascimento, J. Medeiros, I. Ambar, J. Dias, and X. Carton

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RC C668: 'Review of Detailed temperature-salinity distribution in the Northeast Atlantic from ship and Argo vertical casts By I. Bashmachnikov, F. Neves, A. Nascimento, J. Medeiros, I. Ambar, J. Dias and X. Carton', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Jul 2014
- AC C726: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Igor Bashmachnikov, 21 Aug 2014
RC C797: 'Review of the Manuscript 'Detailed T-S distribution in the NE Atlantic from ship and Argo vertical casts'', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Sep 2014
- AC C849: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Igor Bashmachnikov, 04 Oct 2014

Short summary

The present study defines new interpolation functions for hydrological data. These functions are applied to generate climatological maps of temperature-salinity distribution with a 25m depth interval and a 30km space interval (MEDTRANS data set). The MEDTRANS climatology gives more details of the distribution of water characteristics in the subtropical northeastern Atlantic than other alternative climatologies and is able to reproduce a number of dynamic features described in the literature.