Data used in "Storms regulate Southern Ocean summer warming" ...
The data included in this repository was used to generate the figures in the submitted manuscript "Storms regulate Southern Ocean summer warming" by du Plessis and co-authors. Abstract: "Sea surface temperature (SST) in the Southern Ocean (SO) is the fingerprint of ocean heat uptake a...
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| Format: | Dataset |
| Language: | English |
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Zenodo
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12805764 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.12805764 |
| Summary: | The data included in this repository was used to generate the figures in the submitted manuscript "Storms regulate Southern Ocean summer warming" by du Plessis and co-authors. Abstract: "Sea surface temperature (SST) in the Southern Ocean (SO) is the fingerprint of ocean heat uptake and critical for air-sea interactions. However, SO SST is biased warm in climate models, reflecting our limited understanding of the mechanisms that set its magnitude and variability. An important factor driving SST variability is synoptic-scale weather systems, such as storms, yet their impacts are difficult to directly observe. Using in-situ observations from underwater and surface robotic vehicles in the subpolar SO, we show evidence that storms regulate the summer evolution of SST through altering the mixed layer effective heat capacity and entraining colder water from below. Through these mechanisms, we determine that interannual variations in SO SST reflect changes in storm intensity and prevalence, which, in turn, are ... |
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