Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. Its name, derived from Greek mythology, means the ‘Sea of A
On average, for every latitude range (e.g., 0° to 5° N), the deviations from the basic value are proportional to the difference between evaporation and precipitation. Near the Equator, precipitation dominates and surface salinities of about 35 parts per thousand are encountered; but, in ...
Learn about the Atlantic Ocean and see where it's located. Explore the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and study Atlantic Ocean facts, such as...
The Atlantic Ocean may be described as a bed of water with temperatures below 9°C (layer of cold water) supporting a water bubble over 9°C (layer of warm water), which extends from 50° latitude N 50°S latitude and has an average depth of about 600 m. The most pronounced circulati...
Surface distributions of particulate Fe and Al show maxima over a narrower, northerly shifted latitude range and are consistent with the seasonal location of atmospheric deposition associated with the Intertropical Convergence Zone, while the location of the mid-depth maximum reflects the full annual ...
ocean properties. Direct observations of its strength have only been available since 2004 and at one specific latitude (i.e., 26.5°N)18,19. Estimating the potential influence of the AMOC on surface ocean conditions would, therefore, help to understand the AMOC’s behavior over larger ...
It is controlled by the geographic position and strength of the Eastern Alboran Gyre21 and it has been proposed as the main genetic break between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea16. At the Ibiza Channel, northwestern Mediterranean water recirculates northwards following the Balearic coast...
Latitudinal variation in plankton size spectra in the Atlantic Ocean. Deep Sea Res. Part 2 Top. Stud. Oceanogr. 2006; 53 :1560–1572.San Martin, E., R. P. Harris, and X. Irigoien (2006), Latitudinal variation in plankton size spectra in the Atlantic Ocean, Deep Sea Res. Part II, ...
Biological dinitrogen fixation is the major source of new nitrogen to marine systems and thus essential to the ocean’s biological pump. Constraining the distribution and global rate of dinitrogen fixation has proven challenging owing largely to uncertai
This study focuses on the northeast (NE) North Atlantic Ocean, particularly sites influenced by the North Atlantic Current. A composite plus regression approach is used to create an inter-regional NE North Atlantic reconstruction of sea surface temperature (SST) for the last 1000 years. We high...