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Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-463-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-463-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 2
Research article
 | 
15 Mar 2021
Research article |  | 15 Mar 2021

Water masses in the Atlantic Ocean: characteristics and distributions

Mian Liu and Toste Tanhua

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-463-2021-supplement

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Water mass fractions for GLODAPv2 Atlantic Mian Liu and Toste Tanhua https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/ocean-carbon-data-system/oceans/ndp_107/ndp107.html

Global Ocean Data Analysis Project A. Olsen, R. M. Key, S. K. Lauvset, A. Kozyr, T. Tanhua, M. Hoppema, M. Ishii, E. Jeansson, S. van Heuven, S. Jutterstr\"{o}m, C. Schirnick, R. Steinfeldt, T. Suzuki, X. Lin, A. Velo, and F. F. P\'{e}rez https://doi.org/10.7289/V5KW5D97

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We have characterized the major water masses in the Atlantic Ocean based on the properties found in their formation areas using six properties taken from the GLODAPv2 data product, including both conservative (conservative temperature and absolute salinity) and non-conservative (oxygen, silicate, phosphate and nitrate) properties. The distributions of the water masses are estimated by using the optimum multi-parameter (OMP) model, and we have mapped the distributions of the water masses.
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