Abyssal Recipes Munk 1966

~10000 km

4km

Density of fresh and salt water as a function of temperature

Surface density (winter)

TS Diagram

Take one profile from 4N 16 W

TS diagram fromMeridian sections

Salinity Section

Pacific (180 W)

Atlantic (30 W)

Temperature/Salinity Section

Pacific (180 W)

Atlantic (30 W)

Temperature Section

Pacific (180 W)

Atlantic (30 W)

mL/L

mL/L

Temperature/Oxygen Section

Pacific (180 W)

Atlantic (30 W)

Salinity/Nitrate Section

Pacific (180 W)

Atlantic (30 W)

Temperature/Nitrate Section

Pacific (180 W)

Atlantic (30 W)

Salinity and temperature Atlantic along 30W

Abyssal Recipes II Munk and Wunsch 1998

Estimate of Global Primary Production (Behrenfeld and Falkowski, 1997

Salt fingering

300 meters

2400 meters

WhereIt mayOccur

Schmitt et al (Science 2005)