The sensitivity of Southeast Pacific heat content to changes in ocean structure

• Main Authors: Jones, Dan, Boland, Emma, Meijers, Andrew, Forget, Gael, Josey, Simon, Pimm, Ciara, Sallée, Jean-Baptiste, Shuckburgh, Emily
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Curl; Pacific; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530323/; https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3016

The Southern Ocean features ventilation pathways that transport surface waters into the subsurface thermocline on timescales from decades to centuries, sequestering anomalies of heat and carbon away from the atmosphere and thereby regulating the rate of surface warming. Despite its importance for cl...