Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming
This study investigates processes leading to regional cooling in global warming experiments conducted with the NCAR fully coupled Community Climate System Model (CCSM3). While several previous studies have investigated regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, the mechanism...
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ftncar:oai:drupal-site.org:articles_7545 2023-10-01T03:50:57+02:00 Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming Kim, D.-H (author) Nakashiki, N. (author) Yoshida, Y. (author) Maruyama, K. (author) Bryan, Frank (author) 2005-10-13 application/pdf http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-005-306 https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL023708 en eng American Geophysical Union Geophysical Research Letters http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/repository/collections/OSGC-000-000-005-306 doi:10.1029/2005GL023708 ark:/85065/d7hx1d1w Copyright 2005 American Geophysical Union. Text article 2005 ftncar https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL023708 2023-09-04T18:28:13Z This study investigates processes leading to regional cooling in global warming experiments conducted with the NCAR fully coupled Community Climate System Model (CCSM3). While several previous studies have investigated regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, the mechanism leading to this response remains unclear. We find that changes in ocean circulation offer the key to understanding the regional cooling. The regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, especially the area north of the Ross Sea, results mainly through an advective mechanism. The ocean topography contributes strongly to the change of ocean circulation through changes in bottom vortex stretching associated with a decrease in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ross Sea Southern Ocean OpenSky (NCAR/UCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) Antarctic Pacific Ross Sea Southern Ocean The Antarctic Geophysical Research Letters 32 19 n/a n/a |
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This study investigates processes leading to regional cooling in global warming experiments conducted with the NCAR fully coupled Community Climate System Model (CCSM3). While several previous studies have investigated regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, the mechanism leading to this response remains unclear. We find that changes in ocean circulation offer the key to understanding the regional cooling. The regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, especially the area north of the Ross Sea, results mainly through an advective mechanism. The ocean topography contributes strongly to the change of ocean circulation through changes in bottom vortex stretching associated with a decrease in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport. |
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Kim, D.-H (author) Nakashiki, N. (author) Yoshida, Y. (author) Maruyama, K. (author) Bryan, Frank (author) |
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Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming |
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Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming |
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Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming |
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Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming |
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Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming |
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Regional cooling in the South Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean due to global warming |
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regional cooling in the south pacific sector of the southern ocean due to global warming |
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American Geophysical Union |
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Antarctic Pacific Ross Sea Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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