Deep Sea ResearchPub Date : 1978-07-01DOI: 10.1016/0146-6291(78)90618-5
Jack A.C. Kaiser
{"title":"Vertical and horizontal heat transfer within an oceanic surface mixed layer","authors":"Jack A.C. Kaiser","doi":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90618-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90618-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A well-mixed warm layer forms at the sea surface in cases of light to moderate winds and strong solar insolation. In one such case the heat content changes and irradiative absorption were measured throughout the layer enabling the determination of the local heat balance within the layer, which is between the outward flow of heat per unit volume; <em>f</em>; the absorbed radiation, <em>i</em>; and the heat content change rate, <em>∂h</em>/<em>∂t</em>.</p><p>The quantity <em>f</em> represents both vertical and horizontal flows of heat. The horizontal components are due to a large-scale advection and local variability. The latter are removed from the reduced data by use of a reference temperature from below the layer, while the former are very small compared to the other components of the heat balance; thus <em>f</em> ultimately represents a vertical heat transport.</p><p>The data indicate that with weak solar insolation, heat was transported upward in the top meter and downward below. With strong insolation the heat transfer was downward at all depths. In the uppermost meter of the water, <em>f</em> almost exactly balanced <em>i</em>, while below the top meter <em>f</em> balanced <em>∂h</em>/<em>∂t</em>. Because a stable density interface formed at the bottom of the layer due to turbulent mixing and radiative heating in the layer, it should inhibit non-conductive heat fluxes from the bottom of the layer. These measurements verify this and show <em>f</em> to be very small below the interface.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100360,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research","volume":"25 7","pages":"Pages 645-657"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0146-6291(78)90618-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89364916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deep Sea ResearchPub Date : 1978-07-01DOI: 10.1016/0146-6291(78)90616-1
Eric Shulenberger
{"title":"Vertical distributions, diurnal migrations, and sampling problems of hyperiid amphipods in the North Pacific central gyre","authors":"Eric Shulenberger","doi":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90616-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90616-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over 14,000 hyperiid amphipods were identified to species from replicated, stratified opening-closing net tows (<em>n</em> = 79) in the North Pacific central gyre. Most hyperiid individuals live in the upper 100 m; details of their resource partitioning are not yet known, but differences in either diurnal migratory behavior or preferred depths could help species avoid competition. Each of the two most abundant species accounts for 25% of the hyperiids captured. One species appears to show normal (up at night), the other reverse migration on a fine vertical scale, but statistical treatments of the data only marginally support these conclusions.</p><p>Details of vertical distributions are shown for the 10 most abundant species (accounting for 80% of the individuals captured). Variability among replicates is large, making it difficult to draw statistically defensible conclusions about vertical distributions. At the 5% significance level only two species show diurnal migration; at the 10% level, only four do so. These difficulties occur even with well replicated sampling in an extremely stable environment. The difficulties are discussed and applied to the question of niche dimensionality among hyperiid species.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100360,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research","volume":"25 7","pages":"Pages 605-623"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0146-6291(78)90616-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88557669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deep Sea ResearchPub Date : 1978-07-01DOI: 10.1016/0146-6291(78)90619-7
Saburo Aoki , Kaoru Oinuma
{"title":"The distribution of clay minerals in recent sediments of the Okhotsk Sea","authors":"Saburo Aoki , Kaoru Oinuma","doi":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90619-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90619-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The clay fractions of surface sediments from the Okhotsk Sea contain montmorillonite, chlorite, illite, and small amounts of kaolinite. The concentrations of these minerals differ from place to place, but they are not determined by submarine topography such as basins and rises. The distribution seems to be influenced mainly by the supply of clay minerals from volcanic materials, various rocks, and soils in the bordering lands.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100360,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research","volume":"25 7","pages":"Pages 659-667"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0146-6291(78)90619-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77264172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deep Sea ResearchPub Date : 1978-07-01DOI: 10.1016/0146-6291(78)90617-3
R. Lee Gordon
{"title":"Internal wave climate near the coast of nortwest Africa during JOINT-I","authors":"R. Lee Gordon","doi":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90617-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90617-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Current meter measurements from six stations off the coast of northwest Africa are analysed. Decomposition of the data using empirical orthogonal eigenfunctions shows that in depths shallower than 800 m a significant part of the internal wave energy resides in first mode waves that propagate shoreward. Examination of the energy flux and energy density of these waves indicates that: (1) the origin of the internal wave energy appears to be the deep ocean; (2) the energy density of the interval waves increases shoreward in the deep coastal waters subject to a constant energy flux requirement; (3) the energy density in shallow coastal waters is nearly saturated, i.e. the maximum amplitudes are limited by a finite depth and thus the local energy levels are determined by the local Väsälä frequency and depth; (4) the energy flux is largely dissipated rather than reflected back out to the deep sea.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100360,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research","volume":"25 7","pages":"Pages 625-643"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0146-6291(78)90617-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91350067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deep Sea ResearchPub Date : 1978-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0146-6291(78)90642-2
T.F.W. Harris , R. Legeckis , D. van Forest
{"title":"Satellite infra-red images in the Agulhas Current System","authors":"T.F.W. Harris , R. Legeckis , D. van Forest","doi":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90642-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90642-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Infra-red images from the satellites, NOAA 4 and 5 show that surface temperature differences in the Agulhas Current System are sufficiently contrasting to enable meso-scale features to be identified when cloud cover is absent. Those revealed by images made in 1976 to 1977 include sources of the current, time dependent wave-like structures, sharp current retroflexions, and the contribution of the Agulhas Current to the South Atlantic. The technique allows the varying circulation modes to be studied.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100360,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research","volume":"25 6","pages":"Pages 543-544, IN3-IN6, 545-548"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0146-6291(78)90642-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89473208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deep Sea ResearchPub Date : 1978-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0146-6291(78)90646-X
R.M. Carson, J.H. Simpson
{"title":"Comment on ‘design considerations of wing stabilized free-fall vehicles’ by A. C. Mortensen and R. E. Lange","authors":"R.M. Carson, J.H. Simpson","doi":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90646-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90646-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100360,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research","volume":"25 6","pages":"Pages 577-579"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0146-6291(78)90646-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73428892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deep Sea ResearchPub Date : 1978-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0146-6291(78)90640-9
Yuval Cohen , Louis I. Gordon
{"title":"Nitrous oxide in the oxygen minimum of the eastern tropical North Pacific: evidence for its consumption during denitrification and possible mechanisms for its production","authors":"Yuval Cohen , Louis I. Gordon","doi":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90640-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90640-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Investigation of the nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O), oxygen, and nutrient distributions in the eastern tropical North Pacific Ocean (ETNP) indicated biochemical N<sub>2</sub>O consumption around the core of the oxygen minimum where denitrification takes place. Subsurface N<sub>2</sub>O minima were found at stations where intermediate waters contained near-zero oxygen concentrations and well-developed secondary nitrite maxima, characteristic of denitrification. The N<sub>2</sub>O minima were absent at stations where there was little or no evidence for denitrification.</p><p>Surface waters of the ETNP were on the average 110% saturated with N<sub>2</sub>O relative to a marine air content of 287 ppbv N<sub>2</sub>O. The area appears to be a source for atmospheric N<sub>2</sub>O with an average magnitude of 0.14 pg N<sub>2</sub>O cm<sup>−2</sup>s<sup>−1</sup>.</p><p>Except for the oxygen-deficient layer where the N<sub>2</sub>O minima were found, N<sub>2</sub>O is highly supersaturated at all stations from just below the mixed layer to about 1000 m. Supersaturations varied from 224 to 600% in shallow waters above the base of the pycnocline and from 120 to 250% in deep waters below 1000 m. Possible mechanisms for biochemical N<sub>2</sub>O production in the ocean were examined and it is concluded that in the ETNP, nitrification is the most important.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100360,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research","volume":"25 6","pages":"Pages 509-524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0146-6291(78)90640-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86378163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Deep Sea ResearchPub Date : 1978-06-01DOI: 10.1016/0146-6291(78)90645-8
Zinntae Zo
{"title":"Zooplankton spin splitter","authors":"Zinntae Zo","doi":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90645-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0146-6291(78)90645-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A new device for zooplankton subsampling uses the spinning of aliquot collecting chambers while the sample is mixed by a water jet and drains through a narrow tube. Aliquot chambers collect a small portion of the sample each cycle of rotation. The device reduces splitting time and obtains a variety of subsample sizes in one operation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100360,"journal":{"name":"Deep Sea Research","volume":"25 6","pages":"Pages 571-572, IN9, 573-576"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0146-6291(78)90645-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88189342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}