2003: Sensitivity of basinwide meridional overturning to diapycnal diffusion and remote wind forcing in an idealized Atlantic–Southern Ocean geometry
Recent numerical experiments indicate that the rate of meridional overturning associated with North Atlantic Deep Water is partially controlled by wind stress in the Southern Ocean, where the zonal periodicity of the domain alters the nature of the flow. Here, the authors solve the cubic scale relat...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.164.695 2023-05-15T17:25:26+02:00 2003: Sensitivity of basinwide meridional overturning to diapycnal diffusion and remote wind forcing in an idealized Atlantic–Southern Ocean geometry Barry A. Klinger Jochem Marotzke Jeffery R. Scott The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.164.695 http://www.knmi.nl/publications/fulltexts/jpo_03b.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.164.695 http://www.knmi.nl/publications/fulltexts/jpo_03b.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.knmi.nl/publications/fulltexts/jpo_03b.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-07T15:49:46Z Recent numerical experiments indicate that the rate of meridional overturning associated with North Atlantic Deep Water is partially controlled by wind stress in the Southern Ocean, where the zonal periodicity of the domain alters the nature of the flow. Here, the authors solve the cubic scale relationship of Gnanadesikan to find a simple expression for meridional overturning that is used to clarify the relative strength of the windforced component. The predicted overturning is compared with coarse-resolution numerical experiments with an idealized Atlantic Ocean–Southern Ocean geometry. The scaling accurately predicts the sensitivity to forcing for experiments with a level model employing isopycnal diffusion of temperature, salinity, and ‘‘layer thickness.’’ A layer model produces similar results, increasing confidence in the numerics of both models. Level model experiments with horizontal diffusivity have similar qualitative behavior but somewhat different sensitivity to forcing. The paper highlights the difference in meridional overturning induced by changes in wind stress or vertical diffusivity. Strengthening the Southern Ocean wind stress induces a circulation anomaly in which most of the water is subducted in the Ekman layer of the wind perturbation region, follows isopycnals down into the thermocline, and changes density again when the isopycnals near the surface in the Northern Hemisphere. Approximating the circulation anomaly by this subduction route allows for a surprisingly accurate prediction Text North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic Southern Ocean Unknown Southern Ocean |
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Recent numerical experiments indicate that the rate of meridional overturning associated with North Atlantic Deep Water is partially controlled by wind stress in the Southern Ocean, where the zonal periodicity of the domain alters the nature of the flow. Here, the authors solve the cubic scale relationship of Gnanadesikan to find a simple expression for meridional overturning that is used to clarify the relative strength of the windforced component. The predicted overturning is compared with coarse-resolution numerical experiments with an idealized Atlantic Ocean–Southern Ocean geometry. The scaling accurately predicts the sensitivity to forcing for experiments with a level model employing isopycnal diffusion of temperature, salinity, and ‘‘layer thickness.’’ A layer model produces similar results, increasing confidence in the numerics of both models. Level model experiments with horizontal diffusivity have similar qualitative behavior but somewhat different sensitivity to forcing. The paper highlights the difference in meridional overturning induced by changes in wind stress or vertical diffusivity. Strengthening the Southern Ocean wind stress induces a circulation anomaly in which most of the water is subducted in the Ekman layer of the wind perturbation region, follows isopycnals down into the thermocline, and changes density again when the isopycnals near the surface in the Northern Hemisphere. Approximating the circulation anomaly by this subduction route allows for a surprisingly accurate prediction |
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2003: Sensitivity of basinwide meridional overturning to diapycnal diffusion and remote wind forcing in an idealized Atlantic–Southern Ocean geometry |
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2003: Sensitivity of basinwide meridional overturning to diapycnal diffusion and remote wind forcing in an idealized Atlantic–Southern Ocean geometry |
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2003: Sensitivity of basinwide meridional overturning to diapycnal diffusion and remote wind forcing in an idealized Atlantic–Southern Ocean geometry |
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2003: Sensitivity of basinwide meridional overturning to diapycnal diffusion and remote wind forcing in an idealized Atlantic–Southern Ocean geometry |
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2003: Sensitivity of basinwide meridional overturning to diapycnal diffusion and remote wind forcing in an idealized Atlantic–Southern Ocean geometry |
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2003: sensitivity of basinwide meridional overturning to diapycnal diffusion and remote wind forcing in an idealized atlantic–southern ocean geometry |
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