Wind, waves, and surface currents in the Southern Ocean: observations from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition
The Southern Ocean has a profound impact on the Earth's climate system. Its strong winds, intense currents, and fierce waves are critical components of the air–sea interface and contribute to absorbing, storing, and releasing heat, moisture, gases, and momentum. Owing to its remoteness and hars...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:7a15c808dfdf457e9662db4e5e76404a 2023-05-15T13:41:38+02:00 Wind, waves, and surface currents in the Southern Ocean: observations from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition M. H. Derkani A. Alberello F. Nelli L. G. Bennetts K. G. Hessner K. MacHutchon K. Reichert L. Aouf S. Khan A. Toffoli 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1189-2021 https://doaj.org/article/7a15c808dfdf457e9662db4e5e76404a EN eng Copernicus Publications https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1189/2021/essd-13-1189-2021.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1866-3508 https://doaj.org/toc/1866-3516 doi:10.5194/essd-13-1189-2021 1866-3508 1866-3516 https://doaj.org/article/7a15c808dfdf457e9662db4e5e76404a Earth System Science Data, Vol 13, Pp 1189-1209 (2021) Environmental sciences GE1-350 Geology QE1-996.5 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1189-2021 2022-12-31T06:27:03Z The Southern Ocean has a profound impact on the Earth's climate system. Its strong winds, intense currents, and fierce waves are critical components of the air–sea interface and contribute to absorbing, storing, and releasing heat, moisture, gases, and momentum. Owing to its remoteness and harsh environment, this region is significantly undersampled, hampering the validation of prediction models and large-scale observations from satellite sensors. Here, an unprecedented data set of simultaneous observations of winds, surface currents, and ocean waves is presented, to address the scarcity of in situ observations in the region – https://doi.org/10.26179/5ed0a30aaf764 ( Alberello et al. , 2020 c ) and https://doi.org/10.26179/5e9d038c396f2 ( Derkani et al. , 2020 ) . Records were acquired underway during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), which went around the Southern Ocean from December 2016 to March 2017 (Austral summer). Observations were obtained with the wave and surface current monitoring system WaMoS-II, which scanned the ocean surface around the vessel using marine radars. Measurements were assessed for quality control and compared against available satellite observations. The data set is the most extensive and comprehensive collection of observations of surface processes for the Southern Ocean and is intended to underpin improvements of wave prediction models around Antarctica and research of air–sea interaction processes, including gas exchange and dynamics of sea spray aerosol particles. The data set has further potentials to support theoretical and numerical research on lower atmosphere, air–sea interface, and upper-ocean processes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Southern Ocean Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Antarctic Austral Southern Ocean The Antarctic Earth System Science Data 13 3 1189 1209 |
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The Southern Ocean has a profound impact on the Earth's climate system. Its strong winds, intense currents, and fierce waves are critical components of the air–sea interface and contribute to absorbing, storing, and releasing heat, moisture, gases, and momentum. Owing to its remoteness and harsh environment, this region is significantly undersampled, hampering the validation of prediction models and large-scale observations from satellite sensors. Here, an unprecedented data set of simultaneous observations of winds, surface currents, and ocean waves is presented, to address the scarcity of in situ observations in the region – https://doi.org/10.26179/5ed0a30aaf764 ( Alberello et al. , 2020 c ) and https://doi.org/10.26179/5e9d038c396f2 ( Derkani et al. , 2020 ) . Records were acquired underway during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), which went around the Southern Ocean from December 2016 to March 2017 (Austral summer). Observations were obtained with the wave and surface current monitoring system WaMoS-II, which scanned the ocean surface around the vessel using marine radars. Measurements were assessed for quality control and compared against available satellite observations. The data set is the most extensive and comprehensive collection of observations of surface processes for the Southern Ocean and is intended to underpin improvements of wave prediction models around Antarctica and research of air–sea interaction processes, including gas exchange and dynamics of sea spray aerosol particles. The data set has further potentials to support theoretical and numerical research on lower atmosphere, air–sea interface, and upper-ocean processes. |
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Wind, waves, and surface currents in the Southern Ocean: observations from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition |
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Wind, waves, and surface currents in the Southern Ocean: observations from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition |
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Wind, waves, and surface currents in the Southern Ocean: observations from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition |
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