Regional versus remote atmosphere‐ocean drivers of the rapid projected intensification of the East Australian Current

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Bull, Christopher, Kiss, Andrew E., Sen Gupta, Alex, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Argüeso, Daniel, Di Luca, Alejandro, Sérazin, Guillaume
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2020
• Subjects: F700 Ocean Sciences; F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Curl; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/43570/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015889; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/43570/7/2019JC015889.pdf; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/43570/1/2019JC015889.pdf

Like many western boundary currents, the East Australian Current extension is projected to get stronger and warmer in the future. The CMIP5 multi‐model mean (MMM) projection suggests up to 5°C of warming under an RCP85 scenario by 2100. Previous studies employed Sverdrup balance to associate a trend...