Preconditioning, Formation, and Impact of Maud Rise and Weddell Sea Polynyas in a High-Resolution Earth System Model

• Main Author: Kurtakoti, Prajvala Kishore
• Other Authors: Stoessel, Achim, Chang, Ping, Panetta, Lee, Orsi, Alejandro
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Open Ocean Polynyas; Maud Rise Polynyas; Weddell Sea Polynyas; Southern Ocean Convection; Taylor cap; Bottom water formation; Southern Hemisphere Westerlies; Open ocean convection; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Curl; Maud Rise; Antarc*; ice pack; NADW; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/187569

Open ocean polynyas (OOPs) in the Southern Ocean are ice-free areas within the winter ice pack that are associated with deep convection, potentially contributing to the formation of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW). To enhance the credibility of Earth System Models (ESMs), their ability to simulate OOP...