The southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes
International audience The oceans are traversed by a large-scale overturning circulation, essential for the climate system as it sets the rate at which the deep ocean interacts with the atmosphere. The main region where deep waters reach the surface is in the Southern Ocean, where they are transform...
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author | Pellichero, Violaine Sallée, Jean-Baptiste Chapman, Christopher C. Downes, Stephanie, M. |
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description | International audience The oceans are traversed by a large-scale overturning circulation, essential for the climate system as it sets the rate at which the deep ocean interacts with the atmosphere. The main region where deep waters reach the surface is in the Southern Ocean, where they are transformed by interactions with the atmosphere and sea-ice. Here, we present an observation-based estimate of the rate of overturning sustained by surface buoyancy fluxes in the Southern Ocean sea-ice sector. In this region, the seasonal growth and melt of sea-ice dominate water-mass transformations. Both sea-ice freezing and melting act as a pump, removing freshwater from high latitudes and transporting it to lower latitudes, driving a large-scale circulation that upwells 27 ± 7 Sv of deep water to the surface. The upwelled water is then transformed into 22 ± 4 Sv of lighter water and 5 ± 5 Sv into denser layers that feed an upper and lower overturning cell, respectively. |
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spelling | ftuniversailles:oai:HAL:hal-01795122v1 2025-04-20T14:44:42+00:00 The southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes Pellichero, Violaine Sallée, Jean-Baptiste Chapman, Christopher C. Downes, Stephanie, M. Processus de couplage à Petite Echelle, Ecosystèmes et Prédateurs Supérieurs (PEPS) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL) 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)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Processus et interactions de fine échelle océanique (LOCEAN-PROTEO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) 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)-École polytechnique (X) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE-CRC) National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship number 1521508 ARGO European Project: 637770,H2020,ERC-2014-STG,WAPITI(2015) 2018 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01795122 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01795122v1/document https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01795122v1/file/s41467-018-04101-2.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04101-2 en eng CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-018-04101-2 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//637770/EU/Water-mass transformation and Pathways In The Weddell Sea: uncovering the dynamics of a global climate chokepoint from In-situ measurements/WAPITI WOS: 000431298400014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2041-1723 EISSN: 2041-1723 Nature Communications https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01795122 Nature Communications, 2018, 9 (1), pp.1789. ⟨10.1038/s41467-018-04101-2⟩ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04101-2#author-information [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2018 ftuniversailles https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04101-2 2025-03-26T05:13:33Z International audience The oceans are traversed by a large-scale overturning circulation, essential for the climate system as it sets the rate at which the deep ocean interacts with the atmosphere. The main region where deep waters reach the surface is in the Southern Ocean, where they are transformed by interactions with the atmosphere and sea-ice. Here, we present an observation-based estimate of the rate of overturning sustained by surface buoyancy fluxes in the Southern Ocean sea-ice sector. In this region, the seasonal growth and melt of sea-ice dominate water-mass transformations. Both sea-ice freezing and melting act as a pump, removing freshwater from high latitudes and transporting it to lower latitudes, driving a large-scale circulation that upwells 27 ± 7 Sv of deep water to the surface. The upwelled water is then transformed into 22 ± 4 Sv of lighter water and 5 ± 5 Sv into denser layers that feed an upper and lower overturning cell, respectively. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Southern Ocean Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: HAL-UVSQ Southern Ocean Nature Communications 9 1 |
spellingShingle | [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography Pellichero, Violaine Sallée, Jean-Baptiste Chapman, Christopher C. Downes, Stephanie, M. The southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes |
title | The southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes |
title_full | The southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes |
title_fullStr | The southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes |
title_full_unstemmed | The southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes |
title_short | The southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes |
title_sort | southern ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes |
topic | [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography |
topic_facet | [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography |
url | https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01795122 https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01795122v1/document https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01795122v1/file/s41467-018-04101-2.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04101-2 |