Satellite-Derived Shelf Slope Frontal Variability,Tail of the Grand Banks to Cape Hatteras

James J. BisagniProfessor

Department of Estuarine and Ocean SciencesUniversity of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

School for Marine Science and TechnologyNew Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

Supported by the National Science FoundationUS-GLOBEC NW Atlantic Georges Bank Program

Shelf Slope Front (SSF)

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2 SST (C) 32

Weekly “warmest-pixel” sea surface temperature (SST)satellite image centered on 18 May 1998

UMass Dartmouth

Shelf-Slope Front Position Annual Cycle, 1973-1992(Bisagni et al., 2006)

Offshore Onshore

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Offshore Onshore

Inter-annual variabilityof annual mean SSF position anomalies, 1973-2001

(Bisagni et al., 2009)

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