Variability and Stability in the Southern Ocean
Mixing variability in the Southern Ocean
... temporal variability, ranging from O(10 26 ) to O(10 23 ) m 2 s 21 ...regional variability in mixing dynamics and enhanced mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current frontal ...entire Southern ...
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Southern Ocean Decadal Variability and Predictability
... The Southern Ocean featured some remarkable changes during the recent ...the Southern Ocean, despite rapidly rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, depicted a surface cooling since ...
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Variability in the mechanisms controlling Southern Ocean phytoplankton bloom phenology in an ocean model and satellite observations
... Satellite ocean color remote sensing and ocean physical reanalysis products do not precisely match model-predicted phenology, but observed patterns do indicate regional variability in mechanism ...
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Phytoplankton variability in the Atlantic and Indian sectors of the Southern Ocean: a biogeochemical approach
... the ocean by metabolic requirements and ...community variability in terms of trace metal distribution in summer surface waters of the Atlantic Southern Ocean along the GEOTRACES GIPY_05 ...
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Southern Ocean Sector Centennial Climate Variability and Recent Decadal Trends
... The Southern Ocean sea surface temperature depicts a pronounced centennial variability during the instrumental ...enhanced variability at centennial time ...similar Southern ...
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Seasonal variability of phytoplankton biomass and composition in the major water masses of the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean
... In this study, we identified the seasonal variations in phytoplankton biomass and species composition in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean using multi-ship, multi-seasonal observations. The chl a ...
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Modelled estimates of spatial variability of iron stress in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
... the Southern Ocean can be significant (as much as 80 ...for variability in these parameters will better repro- duce the natural background levels of primary productivity and the seasonal cycle for ...
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Observed small spatial scale and seasonal variability of the CO2 system in the Southern Ocean
... the Southern Ocean are still poorly described due to the lack of shipboard observations mainly during winter (Metzl et ...the Southern Ocean, thus limiting the assessment of the seasonal cycle ...
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Forced and intrinsic variability in the response to increased wind stress of an idealized Southern Ocean
... 3 Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton, UK Abstract We use ensemble runs of a three layer, quasi-geostrophic idealized Southern ...
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Satellite microwave observations of the interannual variability of snowmelt on sea ice in the Southern Ocean
... the Southern Ocean and detects the onset of diurnal snow ...interannual variability of melt onset dates and large areas of first-year ice where no diurnal freeze thawing occurs at the surface are ...
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Low frequency variability in an coupled ocean-sea ice general circulation model of the Southern Ocean Terence J
... coupled ocean-sea ice general circulation model is used to identify a Southern Ocean southeast Pacific intrinsic mode of low frequency variability and its response to interannual atmospheric ...
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Utilizing the Drake Passage Time-series to understand variability and change in subpolar Southern Ocean pCO2
... large-scale Southern Ocean car- bon uptake and its variability using data from the DPT, it is important to document how pCO 2 in this particular region compares with pCO 2 measured elsewhere in the ...
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Characterising Southern Ocean CO\( 2\) flux variability
... The lack of Southern Ocean observations is compensated for by simulating the carbon cycle, using a Biogeochemical Ocean General Circulation Model (BOGCM). The observations and model si[r] ...
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CLIVAR Exchanges No 22 Special issue on: Southern Ocean Climate Variability
... the ocean to the ...the Southern Ocean, this means an enhanced importance of the sensible heat ...the ocean and therefore increases the transformation of cold into warmer ...
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Variability and climate change signals in the Southern Ocean in the CSIRO and Antarctic CRC coupled ocean atmosphere model
... Over the southern ocean, primary modes of meridional wind and surface heat flux are dominantly zonal wavenumber 3. Unlike oceanic modes, these atmospheric modes tend to be stationary w[r] ...
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High variability in dissolved iron concentrations in the vicinity of the Kerguelen Islands (Southern Ocean)
... The variability in the deep dFe concentrations above the plateau may be due to variability in sedimentary inputs in this highly dynamic region. All stations from this cluster ex- cept station TEW-3 had high ...
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Frontal circulation and submesoscale variability during the formation of a Southern Ocean mesoscale eddy
... km), variability along the periphery of a mesoscale O(10- 100 km) meander precisely as it separated from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and formed a cyclonic eddy ∼ 120 km in ...newly-formed ...
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Modelled estimates of spatial variability of iron stress in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
... potential differences in iron availability and supply within different zones of the Southern Ocean, which agrees. 442[r] ...
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Interhemispheric gradient of atmospheric radiocarbon reveals natural variability of Southern Ocean winds
... This simple scaling argument is more rigorously con- firmed using the atmospheric transport model. For the P2A simulation performed with the MOM3 model, a correspond- ing simulation was performed with the atmospheric ...
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Trends and Interannual Variability of Winds and Turbulent Heat Flux in the Indian Ocean Sector of Southern Ocean during 2000 2009
... different ocean sectors, in terms of water masses, primary productivity, recruitment of species, and migration of organisms that respond to seasonal changes in the temper- ...by ocean currents and ...
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