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Recovery of CTD rosette to the deck of R/V Knorr.

Recovery of CTD rosette to the deck of R/V Knorr.
Recovery of CTD rosette to the deck of R/V Knorr.
Recovery of CTD rosette to the deck of R/V Knorr.
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Simoneau, Amy
Recovery of CTD rosette to the deck of R/V Knorr.
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03/01/2006
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 45, No. 1, Pg. 16:
Exploring the ocean’s interior.
Southern Ocean—Oceans are layered with distinct water masses that vary in size, temperature, and saltiness. Researchers on the research vessel Knorr spent seven weeks in the winter of 2006 surveying the source of a dense, low-salt layer that flows north from Antarctica and fills almost all the Southern Hemisphere and tropical oceans at depths of 2,600 to 3,200 feet (800 to 1,000 meters). Still unknown is how this water mass forms, then sinks, rises, and flows, and how it affects global climate, said the expedition’s co-leader Lynne Talley, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a 1982 graduate of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program.
Photo by Amy Simoneau
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