Salinity Working Group Publications

• Special Issue of Oceanography magazine on Salinity (Vol. 21, March 2008)
  • Salinity and the Global Water Cycle
    by R.W. Schmitt
  • Sea Surface Salinity Trends over Fifty Years Within the Subtropical North Atlantic
    by A.L. Gordon and C.F. Giulivi
  • Evolution of North Atlantic Water Masses Inferred from Labrador Sea Salinity Series
    by I. Yashayaev and A. Clarke
  • Interannual to Interdecadal Salinity Variations Observed Near Hawaii: Local and Remote Forcing by Surface Freshwater Fluxes
    by R. Lukas and F. Santiago-Mandujano
  • Salinity in Argo: A Modern View of a Changing Ocean
    by S.C. Riser, L. Ren, and A. Wong
  • The Aquarius/SAC-D Mission: Designed to Meet the Salinity Remote-Sensing Challenge
    by G. Lagerloef, F.R. Colomb, D. Le Vine, F. Wentz, S. Yueh, C. Ruf, J. Lilly, J. Gunn, Y. Chao, A. deCharon, G. Feldman, and C. Swift
  • What’s Next for Salinity?
    by the CLIVAR Salinity Working Group
• The Salinity Working Group Report Issued July 2007 (pdf)
• Hu, Chuanmin, E.T. Montgomery, R.W. Schmitt, and F.E. Muller-Karger, 2004. The dispeFrsal of the Amazon and Orinoco River water in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea: Observation from space and S-PALACE floats. Deep-Sea Research II (51), pp. 1151-1171.PDF)
  
• Schmitt, Raymond W., 1995. The ocean component of the global water cycle. Reviews of Geophysics, Supplement, (7) pp. 1395-1409. (PDF)
• Curry, Ruth and Cecilie Mauritzen, 17 June 2005. Dilution of the Northern North Atlantic Ocean in Recent Decades. Science, pp. 1772-1774.
• Johnson, Gregory C. and Nicholas Gruber, 2005. Decadal Water Mass Variations Along 20W in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Progress in Oceanography (submitted),(PDF)
• Johnson, Gregory, 2005. Generation and Initial Evolution of a Mode Water q-S Anomaly, Journal of Physical Oceanography (submitted). (PDF)
• Freshwater/Salinity related publications by R.W. Schmitt (.doc)
• Freshwater/Salinity related publications by G. Johnson (.doc)

Links

• ARGO Home Page: http://www.argo.ucsd.edu
• US GODAE Home Page: http://www.usgodae.org
• AQUARIUS Home Page: http://aquarius.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html
• Global Drifter Program: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/gdp.html
• Salinity Data Table

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