Tasman Leakage of intermediate waters as inferred from Argo floats

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 5456-5460

  Rosell Fieschi, Miquel ^a   Rintoul, Stephen R ^b,c,d   Gourrion, Jeröme ^a   Pelegrí, Josep L ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic Intermediate Water; Argo program; East Australian Current; interbasin exchange; Southern Hemisphere supergyre; Tasman Leakage

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; ARGO PROGRAM; CURRENT VELOCITY; INTERMEDIATE LEVEL; INTERMEDIATE WATERS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VELOCITY VECTORS;

VELOCITY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; ARGO; CURRENT VELOCITY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GYRE; LEAKAGE; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE;

EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT; GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84885966875     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL057797     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Cirano, M., and, J. F. Middleton, (2004), Aspects of the mean wintertime circulation along Australia's southern shelves, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 668-684.
2. Davis, R. E., (2005), Intermediate-depth circulation of the Indian and South Pacific Oceans measured by autonomous floats, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35, 683-707.
3. Ganachaud, A., L. Gourdeau, and, W. Kessler, (2008), Bifurcation of the subtropical South Equatorial Current against New Caledonia in December 2004 from a hydrographic inverse box model, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 38, 2072-2084.
4. Godfrey, J. S., G. R. Cresswell, T. J. Golding, and, A. F. Pearce, (1980), The separation of the East Australian Current, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 10, 430-440.
5. Gordon, A. L., (1986), Interocean exchange of thermocline water, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 5037-5046.
6. Herraiz-Borreguero, L., and, S. R. Rintoul, (2011), Regional circulation and its impact on upper ocean variability south of Tasmania, Deep Sea Res., Part II, 58, 2071-2081.
7. Lebedev, K. V., H. Yoshinari, N. Maximenko, and, P. W. Hacker, (2007), YoMaHa'07: Velocity data assessed from trajectories of Argo floats, IPRC Tech. Note 4(2), 20 pp.
8. Middleton, J. F., and, M. Cirano, (2002), A northern boundary current along Australia's southern shelves: The Flinders Current, J. Geophys. Res., 107 (C9), 3129, doi: 10.1029/2000JC000701.
9. Nuñez-Riboni, I., O. Boebel, M. Ollitrault, Y. You, P. L. Richardson, and, R. Davis, (2005), Lagrangian circulation of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the subtropical South Atlantic, Deep Sea Res., Part II, 52, 545-564.
10. Ollitrault, M., M. Lankhorst, D. Fratantoni, P. Richardson, and, W. Zenk, (2006), Zonal intermediate currents in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L05605, doi: 10.1029/2005GL025368.
11. Park, J. J., K. Kim, B. A. King, and, S. C. Riser, (2005), An advanced method to estimate deep currents from profiling floats, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 22, 1294-1304.
12. Ridgway, K. R., (2007), Seasonal circulation around Tasmania-An interface between eastern and western boundary dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C10016, doi: 10.1029/2006JC003898.
13. Ridgway, K. R., and, S. A. Condie, (2004), The 5500-km-long boundary flow off western and southern Australia, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C04017, doi: 10.1029/2003JC001921.
14. Ridgway, K. R., and, J. R. Dunn, (2003), Mesoscale structure of the mean East Australian Current system and its relationship with topography, Progr. Oceanogr., 56, 189-222.
15. Ridgway, K. R., and, J. R. Dunn, (2007), Observational evidence for a southern hemisphere oceanic supergyre, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L13612, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030392.
16. Ridgway, K. R., and, J. S. Godfrey, (1997), Seasonal cycle of the East Australian Current, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 22,921-22,936.
17. Rintoul, S. R., (1991), South Atlantic interbasin exchange, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 2675-2692.
18. Rintoul, S., and, J. Bullister, (1999), A late winter hydrographic section from Tasmania to Antarctica, Deep Sea Res., Part I, 46, 1417-1454.
19. Rintoul, S., and, S. Sokolov, (2001), Baroclinic transport variability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Australia (WOCE repeat section SR3), J. Geophys. Res., 106, 2815-2832.
20. Sloyan, B., and, S. Rintoul, (2001), The Southern Ocean limb of the global deep overturning circulation, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 143-173.
21. Sokolov, S., and, S. Rintoul, (2000), Circulation and water masses of the southwest Pacific: WOCE Section P11, Papua New Guinea to Tasmania, J. Mar. Res., 58, 223-268.
22. Speich, S., B. Blanke, and, G. Madec, (2001), Warm and cold water routes of an OGCM thermohaline conveyor belt, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 311-314.
23. Speich, S., B. Blanke, P. de Vries, S. Drijfhouté, K. Döös, A. Ganachaud, and, R. Marsh, (2002), Tasman leakage: A new route in the global ocean conveyor belt, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (10), 1416, doi: 10.1029/2001GL014586.
24. Speich, S., B. Blanke, and, W. Cai, (2007), Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and the Southern Hemisphere supergyre, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L23614, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031583.
25. Taylor, J., (1997), An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements, 2nd ed., pp. 166-168, Univ. Sci. Books, Sausalito, Calif.
26. Van Sebille, E., M. H. England, J. D. Zika, and, B. N. Sloyan, (2012), Tasman leakage in a fine-resolution ocean model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L06601, doi: 10.1029/2012GL051004.
27. Xie, J., and, J. Zhu, (2008), Estimation of the surface and mid-depth currents from Argo floats in the Pacific and error analysis, J. Mar. Syst., 73, 61-75.