Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events
Simulations with a free-running coupled climate model show that heat release associated with Southern Ocean deep convection variability can drive centennial-scale Antarctic temperature variations of up to 2.0 °C. The mechanism involves three steps: Preconditioning: heat accumulates at depth in the S...
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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:31516 2023-08-27T04:04:18+02:00 Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events Pedro, J. B. Martin, Torge Steig, E. J. Jochum, M. Park, Wonsun Rasmussen, S. O. 2016-03-16 text https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/1/grl54088.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/2/grl54088-sup-0001-supinfo.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/13/grl54088.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL067861 en eng AGU (American Geophysical Union) Wiley https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/1/grl54088.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/2/grl54088-sup-0001-supinfo.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/13/grl54088.pdf Pedro, J. B., Martin, T. , Steig, E. J., Jochum, M., Park, W. and Rasmussen, S. O. (2016) Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events. Open Access Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (5). pp. 2192-2199. DOI 10.1002/2016GL067861 <https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL067861>. doi:10.1002/2016GL067861 cc_by_3.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Article PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2016 ftoceanrep https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL067861 2023-08-06T23:19:54Z Simulations with a free-running coupled climate model show that heat release associated with Southern Ocean deep convection variability can drive centennial-scale Antarctic temperature variations of up to 2.0 °C. The mechanism involves three steps: Preconditioning: heat accumulates at depth in the Southern Ocean; Convection onset: wind and/or sea-ice changes tip the buoyantly unstable system into the convective state; Antarctic warming: fast sea-ice–albedo feedbacks (on annual–decadal timescales) and slow Southern Ocean frontal and sea-surface temperature adjustments to convective heat release (on multidecadal–century timescales) drive an increase in atmospheric heat and moisture transport toward Antarctica. We discuss the potential of this mechanism to help drive and amplify climate variability as observed in Antarctic ice-core records. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica ice core Sea ice Southern Ocean OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) Antarctic Southern Ocean Geophysical Research Letters 43 5 2192 2199 |
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Simulations with a free-running coupled climate model show that heat release associated with Southern Ocean deep convection variability can drive centennial-scale Antarctic temperature variations of up to 2.0 °C. The mechanism involves three steps: Preconditioning: heat accumulates at depth in the Southern Ocean; Convection onset: wind and/or sea-ice changes tip the buoyantly unstable system into the convective state; Antarctic warming: fast sea-ice–albedo feedbacks (on annual–decadal timescales) and slow Southern Ocean frontal and sea-surface temperature adjustments to convective heat release (on multidecadal–century timescales) drive an increase in atmospheric heat and moisture transport toward Antarctica. We discuss the potential of this mechanism to help drive and amplify climate variability as observed in Antarctic ice-core records. |
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Pedro, J. B. Martin, Torge Steig, E. J. Jochum, M. Park, Wonsun Rasmussen, S. O. Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events |
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Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events |
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Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events |
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Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events |
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Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events |
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Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events |
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southern ocean deep convection as a driver of antarctic warming events |
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https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/1/grl54088.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/2/grl54088-sup-0001-supinfo.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/31516/13/grl54088.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL067861 |
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