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)
