Upper Ocean Heat and Freshwater Budgets
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چکیده
The surface layer of the ocean undergoes temperature variations which occur at several different temporal scales: a diurnal cycle reSecting day and night variability, an annual cycle showing seasonal variations in insolation and weather, and interannual to decadal cycles, indicating large-scale, long-term climate variability. The strength of a given cycle also depends on the location, for example, seasonal variability in sea surface temperature is smaller in the tropics than at high latitudes. The heat balance for the near-surface layer is found by vertically integrating the temperature equation from the bottom of the layer, h, to the sea surface to obtain:
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