The role of vertical eddy flux in Southern Ocean heat uptake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5445-5450

  Morrison, A K ^a   Saenko, O A ^b,c   Hogg, A McC ^a   Spence, P ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

eddies; heat uptake; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA HEAT FLUX; COARSE-RESOLUTION MODEL; COOLING MECHANISM; DYNAMICAL RESPONSE; EDDIES; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TRANSIENT COOLING;

COOLING; DRIVES; HEAT FLUX; PARAMETERIZATION; THERMAL GRADIENTS; WIND STRESS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COOLING; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84885508275     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057706     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Brierley, C. M., M. Collins, and, A. J. Thorpe, (2008), The impact of perturbations to ocean-model parameters on climate and climate change in a coupled model, Clim. Dyn., 34, 325-343.
2. Cai, W., T. Cowan, S. Godfrey, and, S. Wijffels, (2010), Simulations of processes associated with the fast warming rate of the southern midlatitude ocean, J. Clim., 23, 197-206.
3. Chapman, W. L., and, J. E. Walsh, (2007), A synthesis of Antarctic temperatures, J. Clim., 20, 4096-4117.
4. Durack, P. J., S. E. Wijffels, and, R. J. Matear, (2012), Ocean salinities reveal strong global water cycle intensification during 1950 to 2000, Science, 336, 455-458.
5. Gille, S. T., (2008), Decadal-scale temperature trends in the Southern Hemisphere ocean, J. Clim., 21, 4749-4765.
6. Gregory, J. M., (2000), Vertical heat transports in the ocean and their effect on time-dependent climate change, Clim. Dyn., 16, 501-515.
7. Hogg, A. McC., M. P. Meredith, J. R. Blundell, and, C. Wilson, (2008), Eddy heat flux in the Southern Ocean: Response to variable wind forcing, J. Clim., 21, 608-620.
8. Hogg, A. McC., H. A. Dijkstra, and, J. A. Saenz, (2013), The energetics of a collapsing meridional overturning circulation, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 43, 1512-1524, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-12-0212.1.
9. Huang, B., P. H. Stone, and, C. Hill, (2003), Sensitivities of deep-ocean heat uptake and heat content to surface fluxes and subgrid-scale parameters in an ocean general circulation model with idealized geometry, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 3015, doi: 10.1029/2001JC001218.
10. Levitus, S., et al. (2012), World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0-2000 m), 1955-2010, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L10603, doi: 10.1029/2012GL051106.
11. Marshall, J., A. Adcroft, C. Hill, L. Perelman, and, C. Heisey, (1997), A finite-volume, incompressible Navier Stokes model for studies of the ocean on parallel computers, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 5753-5766.
12. Meijers, A. J. S., N. L. Bindoff, and, S. R. Rintoul, (2011), Frontal movements and property fluxes: Contributions to heat and freshwater trends in the Southern Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 116, C08024, doi: 10.1029/2010JC006832.
13. Meredith, M. P., and, A. McC. Hogg, (2006), Circumpolar response of Southern Ocean eddy activity to a change in the Southern Annular Mode, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L16608, doi: 10.1029/2006GL026499.
14. Morrison, A. K., and, A. McC. Hogg, (2013), On the relationship between Southern Ocean Overturning and ACC transport, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 43, 140-148.
15. Redi, M. H., (1982), Oceanic isopycnal mixing by coordinate rotation, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 12, 1154-1158.
16. Thompson, D. W. J., and, S. Solomon, (2002), Interpretation of recent Southern Hemisphere climate change, Science, 296, 895-899.
17. Wolfe, C. L., and, P. Cessi, (2009), Overturning circulation in an eddy-resolving model: The effect of the pole-to-pole temperature gradient, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 39, 125-142.
18. Wolfe, C. L., P. Cessi, J. L. McClean, and, M. E. Maltrud, (2008), Vertical heat transport in eddying ocean models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L23605, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036138.