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Circulation Changes In The Arctic Ocean And Subarctic Seas And Their Connections To The Global Ocean And Climate, Rachel Elizabeth Nichols
Circulation Changes In The Arctic Ocean And Subarctic Seas And Their Connections To The Global Ocean And Climate, Rachel Elizabeth Nichols
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Salinity and freshwater fluxes are important tools for monitoring the amount of freshwater entering and exiting the Arctic Ocean. Satellite-derived salinity provides a way to study surface advective freshwater fluxes; however, sea ice contamination, among others, remains an obstacle in the accuracy and reliability of these measurements. In this study, salinity and surface freshwater fluxes are calculated using NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) and the ESA’s Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS), Argo, and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast’s Ocean Reanalysis version 4 (ORAS4). ORAS4 compares well to Argo in the subarctic seas and is used for comparison …