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Figure 4

From: Closing the sea surface mixed layer temperature budget from in situ observations alone: Operation Advection during BoBBLE

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(A) Time series of the terms of the heat budget equation (Eq. 1). (B) Tendency and sum of the terms on the right hand side of Eq. 1. (C) Zonal and meridional components of the horizontal advection. (D) Components of the entrainment term (tendency of the MLD, lateral induction and vertical advection). (E) Components of the net heat flux term (surface heat flux and penetrating shortwave heat loss). The curves in (A–E) are smoothed using a 4-hour moving window to remove high frequency noises in the estimates. (F) Comparison between horizontal advection and horizontal mixing terms estimated using uCTD sections. (G) Comparison of the zonal gradient estimated using uCTD with gliders. (H) Same as (G), but for the meridional gradient.

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