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Suspended Matter Distribution in the Surface Layer of the East Equatorial Atlantic

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Abstract—The research is dedicated to the suspended particulate matter (SPM) distribution and the hydrological–hydrochemical conditions within the oceanic upwelling of the so-called Guinea Dome. This dome is a 500 km diameter stable cyclonic eddy, the center of which is located at 10° N and 22° W. It was formed owing to northern branch of Equatorial Counter Current activity. A cruise in November 2016 made it possible to observe the rising of isotherms and isohalines up to 50 m in the northern part of the dome, as well as a high SPM concentration (up to 0.7 mg/L) in the ocean surface layer south of 8° N.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank NOAA Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) for providing the HYSPLIT model and the READY website (http://www.ready.noaa.gov) for the writing of this article.

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Field data acquisition on cruise 33 of the R/V Akademik Nikolaj Strakhov was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 14-50-00095); interpretation of the results was carried out under the state assignment of IO RAS (topic no. 0149-2019-0013).

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  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117218, Moscow, Russia

    E. S. Bubnova, M. V. Kapustina, V. A. Krechik & V. V. Sivkov

  2. Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 236016, Kaliningrad, Russia

    E. S. Bubnova, M. V. Kapustina & V. V. Sivkov

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Bubnova, E.S., Kapustina, M.V., Krechik, V.A. et al. Suspended Matter Distribution in the Surface Layer of the East Equatorial Atlantic. Oceanology 60, 228–235 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143702001004X

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