Figure 2. Measurement locations.

Locations of velocity transects (black lines), of additional buoyancy transects (dark gray lines) and of the model snapshots shown in Fig. 1 (transparent shading). The colour shading shows sea surface temperatures on 13–20 March 2012 (8-day L3 MODIS Aqua composite of 4 μm nighttime temperature). Missing data are indicated by white shading.