scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Institution

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

NonprofitFalmouth, Massachusetts, United States
About: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a nonprofit organization based out in Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Mantle (geology). The organization has 5685 authors who have published 18396 publications receiving 1202050 citations. The organization is also known as: WHOI.


Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: A general approach to the problem of comparing the consequences of competing strategies for biological diversity in optimizing strategies aimed at the conservation of biological diversity is presented.

280 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: Playback experiments with wild bottlenose dolphins suggest that signature whistles are used for individual recognition, and it is predicted that mothers would respond more strongly to the whistles of their own independent offspring than to the whistle of a familiar, similar-aged nonoffspring.

280 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
01 Nov 1989-Nature
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd systematics of MORBs require garnet to be a residual phase in MORB melt genesis, and place the onset of melting beneath a mid-ocean ridge at depths greater than 80 km.
Abstract: MID-OCEAN-RIDGE basalts (MORBs) are thought to result from melting in the mantle at depths of less than 60 km, in the spinel stability field1–3 MORBs have 176Hf/177Hf ratios indicating derivation from a mantle reservoir with a long-term Lu/Hf ratio greater than that of Cl chondrite meteorites, yet the measured Lu/Hf ratios in MORB are lower than in Cl chondrites: this is the 'hafnium paradox'4 Here we show that the Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd systematics of MORBs require garnet to be a residual phase in MORB melt genesis This places the onset of melting beneath a mid-ocean ridge at depths greater than 80 km A sequential melting model, in which melting starts in the garnet stability field and then continues at shallower levels, best explains the combined Nd and Hf isotope systematics, and is compatible with our present geophysical and geochemical knowledge of mid-ocean-ridge magmatism

280 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined water property distributions in the deep South China Sea and adjoining Pacific Ocean using all available hydrographic data and revealed that below about 1500 m there is a persistent baroclinic pressure gradient driving flow from the Pacific into the south China Sea through Luzon Strait.
Abstract: [1] This study examines water property distributions in the deep South China Sea and adjoining Pacific Ocean using all available hydrographic data. Our analysis reveals that below about 1500 m there is a persistent baroclinic pressure gradient driving flow from the Pacific into the South China Sea through Luzon Strait. Applying hydraulic theory with assumptions of zero potential vorticity and flat bottom to the Luzon Strait yields a transport estimate of 2.5 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3 s−1). Some implications of this result include: (1) a residence time of less than 30 years in the deep South China Sea, (2) a mean diapycnal diffusivity as large as 10−3 m2 s−1, and (3) an abyssal upwelling rate of about 3 × 10−6 m s−1. These quantities are consistent with residence times based on oxygen consumption rates. The fact that all of the inflowing water must warm up before leaving the basin implies that this marginal sea contributes to the water mass transformations that drive the meridional overturning circulation in the North Pacific. Density distributions within the South China Sea basin suggest a cyclonic deep boundary current system, as might be expected for an overflow-driven abyssal circulation.

280 citations


Authors

Showing all 5752 results

NameH-indexPapersCitations
Roberto Romero1511516108321
Jerry M. Melillo13438368894
Timothy J. Mitchison13340466418
Xiaoou Tang13255394555
Jillian F. Banfield12756260687
Matthew Jones125116196909
Rodolfo R. Llinás12038652828
Ronald D. Vale11734249020
Scott C. Doney11140659218
Alan G. Marshall107106046904
Peter K. Smith10785549174
Donald E. Canfield10529843270
Edward F. DeLong10226242794
Eric A. Davidson10128145511
Gary G. Borisy10124838195
Network Information
Related Institutions (5)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
7.8K papers, 487.4K citations

97% related

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
10.7K papers, 499.6K citations

94% related

Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory
8K papers, 504.5K citations

93% related

IFREMER
12.3K papers, 468.8K citations

91% related

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
30.1K papers, 1.5M citations

90% related

Performance
Metrics
No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202357
2022126
2021712
2020701
2019737
2018612