Evidence for the Antarctic circumpolar wave in the sub-Antarctic during the past 50 years

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Mélice, Jean-Luc, Lutjeharms, Johann R. E., Goosse, Hugues, Fichefet, Thierry, Reason, Chris J. C.
• Other Authors: Department of Oceanography Cape Town, University of Cape Town, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître (UCL-ASTR), Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2005
• Subjects: [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Antarc*; Antarctic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00124773; https://hal.science/hal-00124773/document; https://hal.science/hal-00124773/file/2005GL023361.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL023361

Sea surface temperatures have been measured at the islands of Marion (47°S, 38°E) from 1949 to 1998 and Gough (40°S, 10°W) from 1956 to 1998. These are some of the longest records of their kind in the sub-Antarctic. Evidence for the passage of the Antarctic circumpolar wave is apparent at each island, presenting one of the most extended documentation of this phenomenon to date. The highest, negative correlation between the anomalies in each island's sea surface temperature record and the sea ice extent anomalies is observed directly south of each individual island. The sea surface temperature anomalies at Gough lead those at Marion by about one year in average, with mean precession periods of 8.6, 8.9, and 10.4 years in the 60s, 80s and 90s, respectively. These precession periods can be compared to those observed in the sea ice extent anomalies.