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The article was published on 1976-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2377 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: World Ocean Atlas.

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The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific

TL;DR: A metagenomic study of the marine planktonic microbiota in which surface (mostly marine) water samples were analyzed as part of the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition, which yielded an extensive dataset consisting of 7.7 million sequencing reads.
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Sea-level and deep water temperature changes derived from benthic foraminifera isotopic records

TL;DR: In this paper, robust regressions were established between relative sea-level (RSL) data and benthic foraminifera oxygen isotopic ratios from the North Atlantic and Equatorial Pacific Ocean over the last climatic cycle.
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Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies

TL;DR: In this paper, an automated procedure for identifying and tracking mesoscale features based on their SSH signatures yields 35,891 eddies with average lifetime of 32 weeks and an average propagation distance of 550 km.
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The role of sea ice and other fresh water in the Arctic circulation

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the control of the vertical circulation in the northern seas, and the potential for altering it, by considering the budgets and storage of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean and in the convective regions to the south.
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