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The expansion of the temperature anomaly field in the North Atlantic is considered using natural orthogonal functions of depth. It is shown that the first few components of this expansion describe the field both at the surface and in the upper 1000 m layer accurately enough. The relation between the water temperature anomaly at some levels and the above components is estimated for various regions of the ocean.
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Translated by Mikhail M. Trufanov.
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Markov, A.A., Braiko, O.I. & Krasovsky, Y.P. On the vertical structure of temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic. Soviet Journal of Physical Oceanography 2, 185–189 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197205
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02197205