Heat distribution in the Southeast Pacific is only weakly sensitive to high-latitude heat flux and wind stress.

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Jones, Daniel C., Boland, Emma, Meijers, Andrew J.S., Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon A., Sallee, Jean-Baptiste, Shuckburgh, Emily
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Pacific; Curl; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524274/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524274/1/Jones_et_al-2019-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research__Oceans.pdf; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JC015460

The Southern Ocean features regionally‐varying ventilation pathways that transport heat and carbon from the surface ocean to the interior thermocline on timescales of decades to centuries, but the factors that control the distribution of heat along these pathways are not well understood. In this stu...