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Jo, Y., Yan, X., Dzwonkowski, B. and Liu, W.T. (2005). A study of the freshwater discharge from the Amazon River into the tropical Atlantic using multi-sensor data. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2004GL021840. issn: 0094-8276. |
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We study freshwater discharge from the Amazon River into the tropical Atlantic using monthly mean multi-sensor data from September 1997 to July 2003. In order to demonstrate freshwater discharge, we used chlorophyll concentration (Chl_a) and diffuse attenuation coefficient (DAC) measured by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), and salt steric height anomaly (Δη'S) derived from Integrated Multi-Sensor Data Analysis (IMSDA). IMSDA was obtained from estimating the long term-time series of Δη'S by removing the thermal steric height anomaly (η'T) from altimetry data. Comparisons of long-term time series of Δη'S, Chl_a, and DAC were made with mooring data at 8¿N, 38¿W, which were highly correlated. There are three- to five-month lags between the Amazon River discharge and 4¿N latitude estimated from latitude-time diagram derived from SeaWiFS measurements. |
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Keywords
Oceanography, Physical, Nearshore processes, Oceanography, General, Coastal processes, Oceanography, General, Equatorial oceanography, Oceanography, Physical, Upper ocean and mixed layer processes, Oceanography, General, Descriptive and regional oceanography |
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American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
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