The effect of windstress change on future sea level change in the Southern Ocean
International audience AOGCMs of the two latest phases (CMIP3 and CMIP5) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, like earlier AOGCMs, predict large regional variations in future sea level change. The model‐mean pattern of change in CMIP3 and CMIP5 is very similar, and its most prominent featur...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-02892313v1 2023-05-15T15:07:12+02:00 The effect of windstress change on future sea level change in the Southern Ocean Bouttes, Nathaëlle Gregory, Jonathan, Kuhlbrodt, T. Suzuki, T. NCAS-Climate Reading Department of Meteorology Reading University of Reading (UOR)-University of Reading (UOR) Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) 2012-12-16 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02892313 https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL054207 en eng HAL CCSD American Geophysical Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1029/2012GL054207 hal-02892313 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02892313 doi:10.1029/2012GL054207 ISSN: 0094-8276 EISSN: 1944-8007 Geophysical Research Letters https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02892313 Geophysical Research Letters, American Geophysical Union, 2012, 39 (23), pp.n/a-n/a. ⟨10.1029/2012GL054207⟩ [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2012 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL054207 2021-07-24T22:45:50Z International audience AOGCMs of the two latest phases (CMIP3 and CMIP5) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, like earlier AOGCMs, predict large regional variations in future sea level change. The model‐mean pattern of change in CMIP3 and CMIP5 is very similar, and its most prominent feature is a zonal dipole in the Southern Ocean: sea level rise is larger than the global mean north of 50°S and smaller than the global mean south of 50°S in most models. The individual models show widely varying patterns, although the inter‐model spread in local sea level change is smaller in CMIP5 than in CMIP3. Here we investigate whether changes in windstress can explain the different patterns of projected sea level change, especially the Southern Ocean feature, using two AOGCMs forced by the changes in windstress from the CMIP3 and CMIP5 AOGCMs. We show that the strengthening and poleward shift of westerly windstress accounts for the most of the large spread among models in magnitude of this feature. In the Indian, North Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the windstress change is influential, but does not completely account for the projected sea level change. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Southern Ocean Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Arctic Indian Pacific Southern Ocean Geophysical Research Letters 39 23 n/a n/a |
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International audience AOGCMs of the two latest phases (CMIP3 and CMIP5) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, like earlier AOGCMs, predict large regional variations in future sea level change. The model‐mean pattern of change in CMIP3 and CMIP5 is very similar, and its most prominent feature is a zonal dipole in the Southern Ocean: sea level rise is larger than the global mean north of 50°S and smaller than the global mean south of 50°S in most models. The individual models show widely varying patterns, although the inter‐model spread in local sea level change is smaller in CMIP5 than in CMIP3. Here we investigate whether changes in windstress can explain the different patterns of projected sea level change, especially the Southern Ocean feature, using two AOGCMs forced by the changes in windstress from the CMIP3 and CMIP5 AOGCMs. We show that the strengthening and poleward shift of westerly windstress accounts for the most of the large spread among models in magnitude of this feature. In the Indian, North Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the windstress change is influential, but does not completely account for the projected sea level change. |
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NCAS-Climate Reading Department of Meteorology Reading University of Reading (UOR)-University of Reading (UOR) Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) |
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The effect of windstress change on future sea level change in the Southern Ocean |
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The effect of windstress change on future sea level change in the Southern Ocean |
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The effect of windstress change on future sea level change in the Southern Ocean |
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The effect of windstress change on future sea level change in the Southern Ocean |
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The effect of windstress change on future sea level change in the Southern Ocean |
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effect of windstress change on future sea level change in the southern ocean |
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ISSN: 0094-8276 EISSN: 1944-8007 Geophysical Research Letters https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02892313 Geophysical Research Letters, American Geophysical Union, 2012, 39 (23), pp.n/a-n/a. ⟨10.1029/2012GL054207⟩ |
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