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Brief Overview of the Physical Oceanography

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The Nordic Seas

Abstract

In the Nordic Seas have been the sites of many oceanographic stations over the years. Figure 1 shows as an example the sites of most of the Nansen casts up to 1975 for September (summer conditions) and January (winter conditions). No overview yet exists for the STD and CTD casts. (The abbreviation STD is used both for an older, analog instrument and for the salinity, temperature, and depth it measures. The abbreviation CTD is used for a newer, digital instrument and for conductivity, temperature, and depth. Both instruments actually report not depth but pressure.) In addition to data from the Nansen casts several ten thousands of bathythermograph (BT) data, expendablebathythermograph (XBT) data, and aircraftexpendable-bathythermograph (AXBT) data have been obtained; however, these observations give only the temperature profiles to several hundred meters.

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    Burton G. Hurdle

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Johannessen, O.M. (1986). Brief Overview of the Physical Oceanography. In: Hurdle, B.G. (eds) The Nordic Seas. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8035-5_4

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