The Official Magazine of The Oceanography Society
Volume 21 | Number 1 | March 2008
Special Issue: Salinity
On the Cover: Schematic showing floats, drifters, gliders, moorings, ships, and satellites sampling an ocean volume in sufficient density to constrain the upper-ocean salinity budget and thus surface freshwater flux. Gliders patrol the boundaries, floats and drifters monitor the interior, and flux buoys and satellites assess air-sea interactions. Such control-volume experiments run over several seasonal cycles will greatly aid the representation of upper-ocean advection and mixing processes in climate models. For further discussion, see “What’s Next for Salinity” on p. 82 of this issue.
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SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES
Salinity and the Global Water Cycle
By
Raymond W. Schmitt
Sea Surface Salinity Trends over Fifty Years Within the Subtropical North Atlantic
By
Arnold L. Gordon and
Claudia F. Giulivi
Evolution of North Atlantic Water Masses Inferred from Labrador Sea Salinity Series
By
Igor Yashayaev and
Allyn Clarke
Interannual to Interdecadal Salinity Variations Observed Near Hawaii: Local and Remote Forcing by Surface Freshwater Fluxes
By
Roger Lukas and
Fernando Santiago-Mandujano
Salinity in Argo: A Modern View of a Changing Ocean
By
Stephen C. Riser ,
Li Ren , and
Annie Wong
The Aquarius/SAC-D Mission: Designed to Meet the Salinity Remote-Sensing Challenge
By
Gary Lagerloef ,
F. Raul Colomb,
David Le Vine,
Frank Wentz,
Simon Yueh,
Christopher Ruf ,
Jonathan Lilly,
John Gunn ,
Yi Chao,
Annette deCharon,
Gene Feldman , and
Calvin Swift
What's Next for Salinity?
By
The CLIVAR Salinity Working Group
BREAKING WAVES
BREAKING WAVES • Eastern US Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Integrating Models, Data Assimilation, and Analysis
By
Eileen Hofmann,
Jean-Noël Druon,
Katja Fennel ,
Marjorie Friedrichs,
Dale Haidvogel ,
Cindy Lee ,
Antonio Mannino,
Charles McClain ,
Raymond Najjar,
John O’Reilly,
David Pollard,
Michael Previdi ,
Sybil Seitzinger ,
John Siewert,
Sergio Signorini , and
John Wilkin
DEPARTMENTS
QUARTERDECK • Qualities of a Good Mentor
By
Ellen S. Kappel
FROM THE PRESIDENT • The Salt of the Sea
By
Richard Spinrad
THE OCEANOGRAPHY CLASSROOM • An Awakening (Part I)
By
Robert J. Feller
BOOK REVIEW • The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: Development, Diversity, and Change
By
Nick Harvey
BOOK REVIEW • The Unnatural History of the Sea
By
Andrew J. Read
BOOK REVIEW • Fundamentals of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
By
Christopher A. Edwards
Special Issue Guest Editors
Raymond W. Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Sponsors
This issue was generously sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.