{"id":182308,"date":"2013-02-21T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"fbdb36b8aa66126ee5a5a8c1eef575cd"},"modified":"2013-02-21T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T23:00:00","slug":"sea-surface-salinity-and-currents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=182308","title":{"rendered":"Sea-surface salinity and currents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/02\/sea-surface_salinity_and_currents\/12539089-4-eng-GB\/Sea-surface_salinity_and_currents_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Salinity data from SMOS show that warm, salty water being carried north by the Gulf Stream converges with colder, less-salty water transported southward along North America\u2019s east coast by the Labrador Current. This convergence causes strong lateral gradients, leading to mixing processes between the water masses off Cape Hatteras. <br \/>\nSMOS observations are able to delineate and monitor the resulting eddies that have been \u2018pinched off\u2019 from the current and form little parcels of warm and salty water in the Labrador Current, and colder, fresher water in the Gulf Stream. <br \/>SMOS is able to monitor the dynamics of this process thanks to its high resolution and frequent revisit time. This is giving scientists new insight into how salt is exchanged across current boundaries \u2013 a key to better understanding the conveyor belt of global oceanic circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/02\/sea-surface_salinity_and_currents\/12539089-4-eng-GB\/Sea-surface_salinity_and_currents_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Salinity data from SMOS show that warm, salty water being carried north by the Gulf Stream converges with colder, less-salty water transported southward along North America\u2019s east coast by the Labrador Current. This convergence causes strong lateral gradients, leading to mixing processes between the water masses off Cape Hatteras. <br \/>\nSMOS observations are able to delineate and monitor the resulting eddies that have been \u2018pinched off\u2019 from the current and form little parcels of warm and salty water in the Labrador Current, and colder, fresher water in the Gulf Stream. <br \/>SMOS is able to monitor the dynamics of this process thanks to its high resolution and frequent revisit time. This is giving scientists new insight into how salt is exchanged across current boundaries \u2013 a key to better understanding the conveyor belt of global oceanic circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}