Haline hurricane wake in the Amazon/Orinoco plume: AQUARIUS/SACD and SMOS observations

A. Grodsky, Semyon; Reul, Nicolás; Lagerloef, Gary; Reverdin, Gilles; A. Carton, James; Chapron, Bertrand; Quilfen, Yves; Kudryavtsev, Vladimir; Kao, Hsun‐Ying

doi:10.1029/2012gl053335

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Haline hurricane wake in the Amazon/Orinoco plume: AQUARIUS/SACD and SMOS observations

Published in Geophysical Research Letters • Sep 17, 2012

Authors:

Semyon A. Grodsky

Nicolás Reul

Gary Lagerloef

Abstract

At its seasonal peak the Amazon/Orinoco plume covers a region of 10 6 km 2 in the western tropical Atlantic with more than 1 m of extra freshwater, creating a near‐surface barrier layer (BL) that inhibits mixing and warms the sea surface temperature (SST) to >29°C. Here new sea surface salinity (SSS...

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Plume

Tropical cyclone

Sea surface temperature

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