Cancellation of the Deacon Cell by Vertical Eddy Fluxes

• Main Author: Zika, Jan D.
• Other Authors: Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels Grenoble (LEGI), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Deacon; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00592075; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00592075/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00592075/file/Zika_Deacon_Cancel_GRL_subm_2col_y11m04d13.pdf

The Overturning Circulation of the Southern Ocean has been investigated using a state of the art, eddy resolving ocean-sea ice model. The overturning circulation at constant depth and latitude reveals a 'Deacon Cell', a wind-driven meridional cell which acts to flux light surface waters No...