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Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-2787-2025
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
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05 Nov 2025
Research article |  | 05 Nov 2025

Atmospheric cold pools abruptly reverse thermohaline features in the ocean skin layer

Lisa Gassen, Samuel M. Ayim, Leonie Jaeger, Jens Meyerjürgens, Mariana Ribas-Ribas, and Oliver Wurl

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This study investigates how abrupt weather changes, such as shifts in air temperature, wind speed and precipitation, impact temperature and salinity in the ocean’s skin layer (upper first millimetre). Two events in the harbour of Bremerhaven and one event in the North Sea revealed that the skin layer reacts instantly, with greater temperature changes than those at a depth of 100 cm, underscoring its key role in air-sea interactions and climate dynamics.
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