Southern Ocean heat and momentum uptake are sensitive to the vertical resolution at the ocean surface

• Published in: Ocean Modelling
• Main Authors: Stewart, Kial, Hogg, Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Southern Ocean heat uptake; Wind stress curl; Ekman/wind-driven upwelling/downwelling; Vertical/horizontal resolution; Southern Ocean; Curl; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/205886; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2019.101456; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/205886/3/stewart_hogg_OMOD_resub.pdf.jpg

The Southern Ocean plays a leading oceanic role in Earth’s changing climate, accommodating over two thirds of the excess anthropogenic heat to date. In spite of this, climate and ocean models exhibit substantial variability in Southern Ocean heat uptake and storage, reflecting the modelling challeng...