Diffusion controls the ventilation of a Pacific Shadow Zone above abyssal overturning
International audience Mid-depth North Pacific waters are rich in nutrients and respired carbon accumulated over centuries. The rates and pathways with which these waters exchange with the surface ocean are uncertain, with divergent paradigms of the Pacific overturning: one envisions bottom waters u...
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International audience Mid-depth North Pacific waters are rich in nutrients and respired carbon accumulated over centuries. The rates and pathways with which these waters exchange with the surface ocean are uncertain, with divergent paradigms of the Pacific overturning: one envisions bottom waters upwelling to 1.5 km depth; the other confines overturning beneath a mid-depth Pacific shadow zone (PSZ) shielded from mean advection. Here global inverse modelling reveals a PSZ where mean ages exceed 1400 years with overturning beneath. The PSZ is supplied primarily by Antarctic and North-Atlantic ventilated waters diffusing from below and from the south. Half of PSZ waters re-surface in the Southern Ocean, a quarter in the subarctic Pacific. The abyssal North Pacific, despite strong overturning, has mean re-surfacing times also exceeding 1400 years because of diffusion into the overlying PSZ. These results imply that diffusive transportsdistinct from overturning transportsare a leading control on Pacific nutrient and carbon storage. |
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Diffusion controls the ventilation of a Pacific Shadow Zone above abyssal overturning |
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ftceafr:oai:HAL:hal-03290349v1 2024-05-19T07:31:40+00:00 Diffusion controls the ventilation of a Pacific Shadow Zone above abyssal overturning Holzer, Mark Devries, Tim de Lavergne, Casimir University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW) University of California Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara) University of California (UC) Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean (NEMO R&D ) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) European Project: 821001,SO-CHIC(2019) 2021-07-16 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03290349 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03290349/document https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03290349/file/s41467-021-24648-x.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24648-x en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-021-24648-x info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//821001/EU/Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate/SO-CHIC hal-03290349 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03290349 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03290349/document https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03290349/file/s41467-021-24648-x.pdf doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24648-x WOS: 000677489800001 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2041-1723 EISSN: 2041-1723 Nature Communications https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03290349 Nature Communications, 2021, 12 (1), pp.4348. ⟨10.1038/s41467-021-24648-x⟩ Carbon cycle Physical oceanography [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftceafr https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24648-x 2024-04-25T01:43:38Z International audience Mid-depth North Pacific waters are rich in nutrients and respired carbon accumulated over centuries. The rates and pathways with which these waters exchange with the surface ocean are uncertain, with divergent paradigms of the Pacific overturning: one envisions bottom waters upwelling to 1.5 km depth; the other confines overturning beneath a mid-depth Pacific shadow zone (PSZ) shielded from mean advection. Here global inverse modelling reveals a PSZ where mean ages exceed 1400 years with overturning beneath. The PSZ is supplied primarily by Antarctic and North-Atlantic ventilated waters diffusing from below and from the south. Half of PSZ waters re-surface in the Southern Ocean, a quarter in the subarctic Pacific. The abyssal North Pacific, despite strong overturning, has mean re-surfacing times also exceeding 1400 years because of diffusion into the overlying PSZ. These results imply that diffusive transportsdistinct from overturning transportsare a leading control on Pacific nutrient and carbon storage. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic North Atlantic Southern Ocean Subarctic HAL-CEA (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) Nature Communications 12 1 |