Graduate student Ali Siddiqui has published a paper in JGR Oceans entitled Controls on Upper Ocean Salinity Variability in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic During 1992–2017. The paper’s key points are:

• Two fresh anomalies observed in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic upper ocean during 1992–2017 share similar spatial characteristics
• Salt budget analysis shows the 2012– 2016 fresh anomaly in the upper 1,000 m occurs due to transport of anomalous salinity by mean currents
• In contrast, the fresh anomaly in the 1990s is due to anomalous circulation of the mean salinity field

This is Ali’s first first-author thesis paper!