Concepedia

Water Masses

Water Masses is a physical oceanographic concept denoting a large body of seawater that has acquired a relatively homogeneous and distinctive range of temperature, salinity, and other tracers in a common formation region, such that it can be identified and distinguished from adjacent water bodies as it circulates through the ocean.

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Isotopic Variations in Meteoric Waters

Harmon Craig · Science · 1961 · 8.8K citations

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Mass transport in water waves

M. S. Longuet‐Higgins · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences · 1953 · 1.2K citations

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The Adriatic Sea General Circulation. Part I: Air–Sea Interactions and Water Mass Structure

A. Artegiani, E. Paschini, Aniello Russo et al. · Journal of Physical Oceanography · 1997 · 633 citations

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Liquid water on Enceladus from observations of ammonia and 40Ar in the plume

J. H. Waite, William S. Lewis, B. Magee et al. · Nature · 2009 · 585 citations

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Direct observations of the mass flocculation of diatom blooms: characteristics, settling velocities and formation of diatom aggregates

Alice L. Alldredge, C. Gotschalk · Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers · 1989 · 533 citations

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    Matthias Tomczak

    Flinders University, Australia

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    Ivica Vilibić

    Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Croatia

    6 publications · 592 citations

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    Fı́z F. Pérez

    Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas, Spain

    6 publications · 692 citations

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    Alexander Theocharis

    Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece

    6 publications · 792 citations

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    Jianyu Hu

    Xiamen University, China

    5 publications · 125 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

    Marseille, France

    19 h-index

    42 publications

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  3. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    17 h-index

    29 publications

    1.6K citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    16 h-index

    66 publications

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  5. National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics

    Trieste, Italy

    15 h-index

    48 publications

    5.2K citations

  6. Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

    Venice, Italy

    15 h-index

    36 publications

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  7. Sorbonne Université

    Paris, France

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    39 publications

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  8. Institute of Oceanology

    Qingdao, China

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  3. Journal of Marine Systems

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  4. Continental Shelf Research

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  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

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