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From: Increased gulf stream warm core ring formations contributes to an observed increase in salinity maximum intrusions on the Northeast Shelf

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Schematic illustrating the proposed hypothesis that offshore forcing by the Gulf Stream drives the observed increase in the frequency of intrusions on the Northeast US Shelf. This increasing rate of intrusions starts with the doubling in the annual formation rate of Gulf Stream Warm Core Rings (Gangopadhyay et al., 2019). These rings then translate through the Slope Sea along the ring mean path (shown by the white dashed line) until they encounter the shelf between Georges Bank (labeled GB) and Cape Hatteras (labeled CH)13. The salty water within the Warm Core Rings interacts with the shelfbreak to form a Salinity Maximum intrusion. The top left corner of the schematic shows an example vertical salinity profile containing a salinity maximum intrusion from the EcoMon data. The yellow star marks the maximum salinity. This image was generated using Inkscape14 and M_Map15.

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