Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ...
<!--!introduction!--> The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) trends on decadal time scales and larger are often masked by large interannual and seasonal variability. This variability and thus uncertainty in AMOC estimates on these scales comes from atmospheric synoptic eddies a...
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ftdatacite:10.57757/iugg23-2069 2023-07-23T04:20:11+02:00 Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ... Markina, Margarita Johnson, Helen Marshall, David 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-2069 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5018765 unknown GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 Article ConferencePaper Oral 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-2069 2023-07-03T18:36:42Z <!--!introduction!--> The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) trends on decadal time scales and larger are often masked by large interannual and seasonal variability. This variability and thus uncertainty in AMOC estimates on these scales comes from atmospheric synoptic eddies and mesoscale processes. In this study, we investigate AMOC sensitivity to synoptic and higher frequency variability in atmospheric winds. We performed the suite of sensitivity experiments with 1/12° regional configuration of MITgcm where we apply low-pass filtering to surface winds to extract variability lower than 2 days and 10 days thus capturing the impact of mesoscale variability and atmospheric cyclones respectively on the circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic. Larger magnitude of the surface winds primarily has local effects on the ocean state enhancing ocean heat loss, decreasing upper ocean temperatures, strengthening subpolar gyre, deepening the mixed layer in the Labrador Sea, and increasing the ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... Conference Object Labrador Sea North Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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<!--!introduction!--> The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) trends on decadal time scales and larger are often masked by large interannual and seasonal variability. This variability and thus uncertainty in AMOC estimates on these scales comes from atmospheric synoptic eddies and mesoscale processes. In this study, we investigate AMOC sensitivity to synoptic and higher frequency variability in atmospheric winds. We performed the suite of sensitivity experiments with 1/12° regional configuration of MITgcm where we apply low-pass filtering to surface winds to extract variability lower than 2 days and 10 days thus capturing the impact of mesoscale variability and atmospheric cyclones respectively on the circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic. Larger magnitude of the surface winds primarily has local effects on the ocean state enhancing ocean heat loss, decreasing upper ocean temperatures, strengthening subpolar gyre, deepening the mixed layer in the Labrador Sea, and increasing the ... : The 28th IUGG General Assembly (IUGG2023) (Berlin 2023) ... |
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Markina, Margarita Johnson, Helen Marshall, David |
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Markina, Margarita Johnson, Helen Marshall, David Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ... |
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Markina, Margarita Johnson, Helen Marshall, David |
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Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ... |
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Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ... |
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Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ... |
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Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ... |
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Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ... |
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response of atlantic meridional overturning circulation to variability in surface wind stress on different scales ... |
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GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences |
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2023 |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-2069 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5018765 |
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Labrador Sea North Atlantic |
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Labrador Sea North Atlantic |
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