Abyssal Recipes Munk 1966. ~10000 km 4km.

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Abyssal Recipes Munk 1966

~10000 km 4km

Density of fresh and salt water as a function of temperature

Surface density (winter)

TS Diagram

Take one profile from 4N 16 W

TS diagram from Meridian sections

Salinity Section Pacific (180 W) Atlantic (30 W)

Temperature/Salinity Section Pacific (180 W) Atlantic (30 W)

Temperature Section Pacific (180 W) Atlantic (30 W)

mL/L Temperature/Oxygen Section Pacific (180 W) Atlantic (30 W)

Salinity/Nitrate Section Pacific (180 W) Atlantic (30 W)

Temperature/Nitrate Section Pacific (180 W) Atlantic (30 W)

Salinity and temperature Atlantic along 30W

Abyssal Recipes II Munk and Wunsch 1998

Estimate of Global Primary Production (Behrenfeld and Falkowski, 1997

Salt fingering

300 meters 2400 meters Where It may Occur

Schmitt et al (Science 2005)