Forcing of oceanic heat anomalies by air-sea interactions in the Nordic Seas area

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Schlichtholz, P ^a   Houssais, M N ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CATCHMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; MOORING; SEA ICE;

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ANOMALOUS WINDS; ARCTIC ICE; ATLANTIC WATER; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC REANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; BARENTS SEA; DIABATIC HEATING; GREENLAND SEA; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; MIXED LAYER; NORDIC SEAS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; OPEN WATER; SEA ICE DISTRIBUTION; STRONG LINK; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TRANSITION ZONES; WEST SPITSBERGEN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CYCLONE; DATA SET; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; HYDROGRAPHY; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PERTURBATION; SEA ICE; SURFACE FLUX; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRANSITION ZONE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; WEST SPITSBERGEN CURRENT;

EID: 78751509564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005944     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Bengtsson, L., V. A. Semenov, and O. M. Johannessen (2004), The early twentieth-century warming in the Arctic: A possible mechanism, J. Clim., 17, 4045-4057.
2. Bitz, C. M., M. M. Holland, E. C. Hunke, and R. E. Moritz (2005), On the maintainence of sea-ice edge, J. Clim., 18, 2903-2921.
3. Blindheim, J., V. Borovkov, B. Hansen, S.-A. Malmberg, W. R. Turrell, and S. Østerhus (2000), Upper layer cooling and freshenning in the Norwegian Sea in the relation to atmospheric forcing, Deep Sea Res. Part I, 47, 655-680.
4. Boyer, T. P., J. I. Antonov, H. E. Garcia, D. R. Johnson, R. A. Locarnini, A. V. Mishonov, M. T. Pitcher, O. K. Baranova, and I. V. Smolyar (2006), World Ocean Database 2005 [DVDs], NOAA Atlas NESDIS, vol. 60, edited by S. Levitus, 190 pp., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, D. C.
5. Davis, R. E. (1976), Predictability of sea surface temperature and sea level pressure anomalies over the North Pacific Ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 6, 249-266.
6. Deser, C., J. E. Walsh, and M. S. Timlin (2000), Arctic sea ice variability in the context of recent atmospheric circulation trends, J. Clim., 13, 617-633.
7. Dickson, R. R., J. Meincke, I. Vassie, J. Jungclauss, and S. Østerhus (1999), Possible predictability in overflow from the Denmark Strait, Nature, 397, 243-246.
8. Dickson, R. R., T. J. Osborn, J. W. Hurrell, J. Meincke, J. Blindheim, B. Ådlandsvik, T. Vinje, G. Alekseev, and W. Maslowski (2000), The Arctic Ocean response to the North Atlantic Oscillation, J. Clim., 13, 2671-2696.
9. Frankignoul, C. (1985), Sea surface temperature anomalies, planetary waves and air-sea feedback in the middle latitudes, Rev. Geophys., 23, 357-390.
10. Frankignoul, C., A. Czaja, and B. L'Heveder (1998), Air-sea feedback in the North Atlantic and surface boundary conditions for ocean models, J. Clim., 11, 2310-2324.
11. Furevik, T. (2001), Annual and interannual variability of Atlantic Water temperatures in the Norwegian and Barents Seas, Deep Sea Res. Part I, 48, 383-404.
12. Furevik, T., and J. E. Ø. Nilsen (2005), Large-scale atmospheric circulation variability and its impacts on the Nordic Seas ocean climate: A review, in The Nordic Seas: An Integrated Perspective: Oceanography, climatology, Biogeochemistry, and Modeling, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 158, edited by H. Drange et al., pp. 105-136, AGU, Washington, D. C.
13. Gascard, J.-C., A. J. Watson, K. A. O. M.-J. Messias, T. Johannessen, and K. Simonsen (2002), Long-lived vortices as a mode of deep ventilation in the Greenland Sea, Nature, 416, 525-527.
14. Gawarkiewicz, G., and A. J. Plueddemann (1995), Topographic control of thermohaline front structure in the Barents Sea Polar Front on the south flank of Spitsbergen Bank, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 4509-4524.
15. Harris, C. L., A. J. Plueddemann, and G. Gawarkiewicz (1998), Water mass distribution and polar front structure in the western Barents Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 2905-2917.
16. Hátún, H., A. B. Sand, H. Drange, B. Hansen, and H. Valdimarsson (2005), Influence of the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre on the thermohaline circulation, Science, 309, 1841-1844.
17. Herbaut, C., and M.-N. Houssais (2009), Response of the eastern North Atlantic subpolar gyre to the North Atlantic Oscillation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L17607, doi:10.1029/2009GL039090.
18. Houssais, M.-N., and W. D. Hibler III (1993), Importance of convective mixing in seasonal ice margin simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 166,427-166,448.
19. Hurrell, J. W. (1995), Decadal trends in the North Atlantic Oscillation: Regional temperature and precipitation, Science, 269, 676-679.
20. Hurrell, J. W., Y. Kushnir, G. Ottersen, and M. Visbeck (2003), An overview of the North Atlantic Oscillation, in The North Atlantic Oscillation: Climate Significance and Environmental Impact, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 134, edited by J. W. Jurrell et al., pp. 1-35, AGU, Washington, D. C.
21. Ingvaldsen, R. B., L. Asplin, and H. Loeng (2004), Velocity field of the western entrance to the Barents Sea, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C03021, doi:10.1029/2003JC001811.
22. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (2006), Hydrographic Database, http://www.ices.dk/ocean/aspx/HydChem/HydChem.aspx, Int. Counc. for the Explor. of the Sea, Copenhagen.
23. Johannessen, O. M., et al. (2004), Arctic climate change: Observed and modelled temperature and sea-ice variability, Tellus Ser. A, 56, 328-341.
24. Kalnay, E., et al. (1996), The NCEP/NCAR 40-yr reanalysis project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 437-471.
25. Karcher, M. J., R. Gerdes, F. Kauker, and C. Köberle (2003), Arctic warming: Evolution and spreading of the 1990 s warm event in the Nordic seas and the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 108(C2), 3034, doi:10.1029/ 2001JC001265.
26. Levitus, S., J. Antonov, and T. Boyer (2005), Warming of the world ocean, 1955-2003, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L02604, doi:10.1029/ 2004GL021592.
27. Maslowski, W., D. Marble, W. Walczowski, U. Schauer, J. L. Clement, and A. J. Semtner (2004), On climatological mass, heat, and salt transports through the Barents Sea and Fram Strait from a pan-Arctic coupled iceocea model simulation, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C03032, doi:10.1029/ 2001JC001039.
28. Mauritzen, C. (1996), Production of dense overflow waters feeding the North Atlantic across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Part 1: Evidence of a revised circulation scheme, Deep Sea Res. Part I, 43, 769-806.
29. Maykut, G. A., and D. K. Perovich (1987), The role of shortwave radiation in the summer decay of sea ice cover, J. Geophys. Res., 92, 7032-7044.
30. Nilsen, J. E. Ø., and E. Falck (2006), Variations of mixed layer properties in the Norwegian Sea for the period 1948-1999, Prog. Oceanogr., 70, 58-90.
31. Nilsen, J. E. Ø., Y. Gao, H. Drange, T. Furevik, and M. Bentsen (2003), SimulatedNorthAtlantic-Nordic Seas watermass exchanges in an isopycnic coordinate OGCM, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(10), 1536, doi:10.1029/ 2002GL016597.
32. Orvik, K. A., and P. Niiler (2002), Major pathways of Atlantic water in the northern North Atlantic and Nordic Seas toward Arctic, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(19), 1896, doi:10.1029/2002GL015002.
33. Orvik, K. A., and Ø. Skagseth (2005), Heat flux variations in the eastern Norwegian Atlantic Current toward the Arctic from moored instruments, 1995-2005, Geophys. Res. Le t t ., 32, L14610, doi:10.1029/ 2005GL023487.
34. Østerhus, S., W. R. Turrell, S. Jónsson, and B. Hansen (2005), Measured volume, heat, and salt fluxes from the Atlantic to the Arctic Mediterranean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L07603, doi:10.1029/2004GL022188. (Pubitemid 40965341)
35. Ottersen, G., B. Ådlandsvik, and H. Loeng (2000), Predicting the temperature in the Barents Sea, Fish. Oceanogr., 9, 121-135.
36. Pagowski, M., and G. W. K. Moore (2001), A numerical study of an extreme cold-air outbreak over the Labrador Sea: Sea ice, air-sea interaction, and development of polar lows, Mon. Weather Rev., 129, 47-72.
37. Polyakov, I. V., L. A. Timokhov, U. S. Bhatt, R. L. Colony, H. L. Simmons, D. Walsh, J. E. Walsh, and V. F. Zakharov (2004), Variability of the intermediate Atlantic water of the Arctic Ocean over the last 100 years, J. Clim., 17, 4485-4497.
38. Polyakov, I. V., U. S. Bhatt, H. L. Simmons, D. Walsh, J. E. Walsh, and X. Zhang (2005a), Multidecadal variability of North Atlantic temperature and salinity during the 20th century, J. Clim., 18, 4562-4581.
39. Polyakov, I. V., et al. (2005b), One more step toward a warmer Arctic, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L17605, doi:10.1029/2005GL023740. (Pubitemid 41536220)
40. Quadfasel, D., B. Rudels, and S. Selchow (1992), The Central Bank vortex in the Barents Sea: Watermass transformation and circulation, ICES Mar. Sci. Symp., 195, 40-51.
41. Renfrew, I. A., G. W. K. Moore, P. S. Guest, and K. Bumke (2002), A comparison of surface layer and surface turbulent flux observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP reanalyses, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 383-400.
42. Reynolds, R. W., N. A. Rayner, T. M. Smith, D. C. Stokes, and W. Wang (2002), An improved in situ and satellite SST analysis for climate, J. Clim., 15, 1609-1625.
43. Saloranta, T. M., and P. M. Haugan (2001), Interannual variability in the hydrography of Atlantic water northwest of Svalbard, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 13,931-13,943.
44. Santer, B. D., T. M. L. Wigley, J. S. Boyle, D. J. Gaffen, J. J. Hnilo, D. Nychka, D. E. Parker, and K. E. Taylor (2000), Statistical significance of trends and trend differences in layer-average atmospheric temperature time series, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 7337-7356.
45. Schauer, U., H. Loeng, B. Rudels, V. K. Ozhigin, and W. Dieck (2002), Atlantic water flow through the Barents and Kara Seas, Deep Sea Res. Part I, 49, 2281-2298.
46. Schauer, U., E. Fahrbach, S. Østerhus, and G. Rohardt (2004), Arctic warming through Fram Strait: Oceanic heat transport from 3 years of measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C06026, doi:10.1029/ 2003JC001823.
47. Schauer, U., A. Beszczynska-Möller, W. Walczowski, E. Fahrbach, J. Piechura, and E. Hansen (2008), Variation of measured heat flow through the Fram Strait between 1997 and 2006, in Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes: Defining the Role of the Northern Seas in Climate, edited by R. R. Dickson, J. Meincke, and P. Rhines, pp. 65-85, Springer, New York.
48. Schlichtholz, P. (2005), Climatological baroclinic forcing of the barotropic flow in the East Greenland Current in Fram Strait, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C08013, doi:10.1029/2004JC002701. (Pubitemid 41431104)
49. Schlichtholz, P., and I. Goszczko (2005), Was the Atlantic Water temperature in the West Spitsbergen Current predictable in the 1990s?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L04610, doi:10.1029/2004GL021724. (Pubitemid 40746869)
50. Schlichtholz, P., and I. Goszczko (2006), Variability of the Atlantic water layer in the West Spitsbergen Current at 76.5°N in summer 1991-2003, Deep Sea Res. Part I, 53, 608-626.
51. Schlichtholz, P., and M.-N. Houssais (1999), An inverse modeling study in Fram Strait. Part II: water mass distribution and transports, Deep Sea Res. Part II, 46, 1137-1168.
52. Skagseth, Ø. (2008), Recirculation of Atlantic Water in the western Barents Sea, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L11606, doi:10.1029/2008GL033785.
53. Skagseth, Ø., T. Furevik, R. Ingvaldsen, H. Loeng, K. A. Mork, K. A. Orvik, and V. Ozhigin (2008), Volume and heat transports to the Arctic Ocean via the Norwegian and Barents seas, in Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes: Defining the Role of the Northern Seas in Climate, edited by R. R. Dickson, J. Meincke, and P. Rhines, pp. 45-64, Springer, New York.
54. Sorteberg, A., and B. Kvingedal (2006), Atmospheric forcing on the Barents Sea winter ice extent, J. Clim., 19, 4772-4784.
55. Steele, M., R. Morley, and W. Ermold (2001), PHC: A global ocean hydrography with a high-quality Arctic Ocean, J. Clim., 14, 2079-2087.
56. von Storch, H., and F. W. Zwiers (1999), Statistical Analysis in Climate Research, 484 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, London.
57. Walczowski, W., and J. Piechura (2006), New evidence of warming propagating toward the Arctic Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12601, doi:10.1029/2006GL025872. (Pubitemid 44687710)