Observations of a diapycnal shortcut to adiabatic upwelling of Antarctic Circumpolar Deep Water

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Mead Silvester, J., Lenn, Yueng-Djern, Polton, Jeff A., Rippeth, Tom P., Morales Maqueda, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Drake Passage; Elephant Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/508796/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/508796/1/grl52261_MeadSilvester.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL061538

In the Southern Ocean, small-scale turbulence causes diapycnal mixing which influences important water mass transformations, in turn impacting large-scale ocean transports such as the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC), a key controller of Earth'sclimate. We present direct observations of...