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A time-varying temperature model of mixing in the English Channel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. D. Pingree ,
Linda Pennycuick  and
G. A. W. Battin
R. D. Pingree*
Affiliation:
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, Surrey
Linda Pennycuick
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
G. A. W. Battin
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth
*
* Present address: The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth.
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The most comprehensive hydrographic work on the English Channel, even today, is that of Lumby (1935). Lumby used the surface observations of ships of opportunity (steamers on regular routes) that were gathered over a period of 25 years from 1903 to 1927. The number of observations gathered runs into tens of thousands and these were subdivided into convenient regions for the purpose of constructing an Atlas of sea surface temperature and salinity. The mean monthly values of temperature for each region from which the monthly contours were drawn can be considered as established to within ± 0.2 °C. Despite the fact that these data have been available for half a century no satisfactory explanation for these monthly temperature distributions has been offered. In this paper the role of horizontal turbulence in redistributing the net surface heating to produce these monthly temperature distributions is quantitatively examined.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , November 1975 , pp. 975 - 992
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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