Andres, M, Rossby, T, Firing, E, Flagg, C, Bates, NR, Hummon, J, Pierrot, D, Noyes, TJ, Johns, DG and Gregory, L 2025 Monitoring Impacts of the Gulf Stream and its Rings on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelf and Slope from CMV Oleander. Oceanography, 38, supplement 1. 54-60. 10.5670/oceanog.2025e108
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Sustained observation is key to measuring physical and ecological variability in the Northwest Atlantic. Here we illustrate how a partnership with a merchant marine container vessel in service between New Jersey and Bermuda twice per week gives scientists a unique window into upper ocean currents, water properties, and marine ecology. Scientific observations collected from CMV Oleander, operated by Bermuda Container Line/Neptune Group, enable cross-disciplinary research, complement satellite measurements, and contribute to global observing programs—including the Global eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) Network, the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT), and the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey. Recent co-located measurements along the Oleander Line document that fronts in temperature, salinity, and carbon dioxide concentrations align with the (sub)mesoscale circulation patterns. The sustained observations show warming and shrinking of the Slope Sea, a northward shift of the Gulf Stream, and warming of the “18°C water” (subtropical North Atlantic mode water) to 19°C
Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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Additional Keywords: | Northwest Atlantic, Continuous Plankton Recorder, CMV Oleander, Gulf Stream |
Subjects: | Data and Information Marine Sciences Oceanography |
Divisions: | Marine Biological Association of the UK > Ocean Biology |
Depositing User: | Ms Kristina Hixon |
Date made live: | 12 Jun 2025 11:22 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2025 11:22 |
URI: | https://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/10428 |
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