Anthropogenic temperature and salinity changes in the Southern Ocean
In this study, we compare observed Southern Ocean temperature and salinity changes with the historical simulations from 13 models the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project version 5 (CMIP5), using an optimal fingerprinting framework. We show that there is an unequivocal greenhouse gas-forced warming...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:42279 2023-05-15T13:41:50+02:00 Anthropogenic temperature and salinity changes in the Southern Ocean Hobbs, WR Roach, C Roy, T Sallee, J-B Bindoff, N 2020 application/pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/42279/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/42279/2/141607%20-%20Anthropogenic%20temperature%20and%20salinity%20changes%20in%20the%20Southern%20Ocean.pdf en eng Amer Meteorological Soc https://eprints.utas.edu.au/42279/2/141607%20-%20Anthropogenic%20temperature%20and%20salinity%20changes%20in%20the%20Southern%20Ocean.pdf Hobbs, WR orcid:0000-0002-2061-0899 , Roach, C, Roy, T, Sallee, J-B and Bindoff, N orcid:0000-0001-5662-9519 2020 , 'Anthropogenic temperature and salinity changes in the Southern Ocean' , Journal of Climate, vol. 34, no. 1 , 215–228 , doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0454.1 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0454.1>. Southern Ocean attribution climate change coupled models model comparison Article PeerReviewed 2020 ftunivtasmania https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0454.1 2022-02-07T23:18:33Z In this study, we compare observed Southern Ocean temperature and salinity changes with the historical simulations from 13 models the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project version 5 (CMIP5), using an optimal fingerprinting framework. We show that there is an unequivocal greenhouse gas-forced warming in the Southern Ocean. This warming is strongest in the Sub-Antarctic Mode Waters, but is also detectable in denser watermasses which has not been shown in previous studies. We also find greenhouse gas-forced salinity changes, most notably a freshening of Antarctic Intermediate Waters. Our analysis also shows that non-greenhouse gas anthropogenic forcings - anthropogenic aerosols and stratospheric ozone depletion – have played an important role in mitigating the Southern Ocean’s warming. However, the detectability of these responses using optimal fingerprinting is model-dependent, and this result is therefore not as robust as for the greenhouse gas response. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Southern Ocean University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic Southern Ocean Journal of Climate 34 1 215 228 |
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In this study, we compare observed Southern Ocean temperature and salinity changes with the historical simulations from 13 models the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project version 5 (CMIP5), using an optimal fingerprinting framework. We show that there is an unequivocal greenhouse gas-forced warming in the Southern Ocean. This warming is strongest in the Sub-Antarctic Mode Waters, but is also detectable in denser watermasses which has not been shown in previous studies. We also find greenhouse gas-forced salinity changes, most notably a freshening of Antarctic Intermediate Waters. Our analysis also shows that non-greenhouse gas anthropogenic forcings - anthropogenic aerosols and stratospheric ozone depletion – have played an important role in mitigating the Southern Ocean’s warming. However, the detectability of these responses using optimal fingerprinting is model-dependent, and this result is therefore not as robust as for the greenhouse gas response. |
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