Mesoscale and Submesoscale Effects on Mixed Layer Depth in the Southern Ocean ...
Submesoscale dynamics play a key role in setting the stratification of the ocean surface mixed layer and mediating air–sea exchange, making them especially relevant to anthropogenic carbon uptake and primary productivity in the Southern Ocean. In this paper, a series of offline-nested numerical simu...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.10896 2024-02-04T10:00:03+01:00 Mesoscale and Submesoscale Effects on Mixed Layer Depth in the Southern Ocean ... Bachman, SD Taylor, Adams, KA Hosegood, P 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.10896 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267319 en eng American Meteorological Society open.access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 Southern Ocean mesoscale processes mixed layer ocean models subgrid-scale processes Article ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle article-journal 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.10896 2024-01-05T09:26:29Z Submesoscale dynamics play a key role in setting the stratification of the ocean surface mixed layer and mediating air–sea exchange, making them especially relevant to anthropogenic carbon uptake and primary productivity in the Southern Ocean. In this paper, a series of offline-nested numerical simulations is used to study submesoscale flow in the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea regions of the Southern Ocean. These simulations are initialized from an ocean state estimate for late April 2015, with the intent to simulate features observed during the Surface Mixed Layer at Submesoscales (SMILES) research cruise, which occurred at that time and location. The nested models are downscaled from the original state estimate resolution of 1/12° and grid spacing of about 8 km, culminating in a submesoscale-resolving model with a resolution of 1/192° and grid spacing of about 500 m. The submesoscale eddy field is found to be highly spatially variable, with pronounced hot spots of submesoscale activity. These areas of high ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Drake Passage Scotia Sea Southern Ocean DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Drake Passage Scotia Sea Southern Ocean |
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Submesoscale dynamics play a key role in setting the stratification of the ocean surface mixed layer and mediating air–sea exchange, making them especially relevant to anthropogenic carbon uptake and primary productivity in the Southern Ocean. In this paper, a series of offline-nested numerical simulations is used to study submesoscale flow in the Drake Passage and Scotia Sea regions of the Southern Ocean. These simulations are initialized from an ocean state estimate for late April 2015, with the intent to simulate features observed during the Surface Mixed Layer at Submesoscales (SMILES) research cruise, which occurred at that time and location. The nested models are downscaled from the original state estimate resolution of 1/12° and grid spacing of about 8 km, culminating in a submesoscale-resolving model with a resolution of 1/192° and grid spacing of about 500 m. The submesoscale eddy field is found to be highly spatially variable, with pronounced hot spots of submesoscale activity. These areas of high ... |
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Mesoscale and Submesoscale Effects on Mixed Layer Depth in the Southern Ocean ... |
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Mesoscale and Submesoscale Effects on Mixed Layer Depth in the Southern Ocean ... |
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Mesoscale and Submesoscale Effects on Mixed Layer Depth in the Southern Ocean ... |
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