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Supplementary Materials
This PDF file includes:
- section S1. Satellite data
- section S2. Compensation between salinity and temperature for fronts of varying
strength
- section S3. Density compensation at a salinity front illustrated in a onedimensional
framework
- section S4. Model sensitivity tests
- section S5. Vertical density compensation: Weakening the density stratification
by cooling
- table S1. Parameter configuration space of sensitivity tests.
- fig. S1. Similar to Fig. 2 but for winter 2015.
- fig. S2. Scatterplots of density variability at a wavelength of 0.6 km due to
salinity and temperature gradients along the longest straight section from the
cruise (leg 2, section A).
- fig. S3. Illustration of active compensation and creation of spice variance with
a series of one-dimensional column models.
- fig. S4. Simulations assessing the model’s sensitivity to the value of horizontal
diffusivity, set at 0.2, 1.0, and 5.0 m2/s.
- fig. S5. Tests assessing the sensitivity of the simulation to the horizontal grid
resolution, set at 0.25 and 0.5 km, for the same domain (48 × 96 km) and the same
value of horizontal diffusivity (1.0 m2/s).
- fig. S6. Tests assessing model evolution with no surface cooling, as well as with
surface cooling during model spin-up.
- fig. S7. Schematic showing variants of simple salinity fronts and stratification .
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