Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau
The location of the Antarctic Polar Front (PF) is mapped in the Southern Indian Ocean by decomposing the shape of temperature and salinity profiles into vertical modes using a functional Principal Component Analysis. We define the PF as the northernmost minimum of temperature at the subsurface and r...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:43377 2023-05-15T13:41:50+02:00 Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau Pauthenet, E Roquet, F Madec, G Guinet, C Hindell, M McMahon, CR Harcourt, R Nerini, D 2018 application/pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/43377/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/43377/1/130087%20-%20Seasonal%20meandering%20of%20the%20polar%20front%20upstream%20of%20the%20Kerguelen%20Plateau.pdf en eng Amer Geophysical Union https://eprints.utas.edu.au/43377/1/130087%20-%20Seasonal%20meandering%20of%20the%20polar%20front%20upstream%20of%20the%20Kerguelen%20Plateau.pdf Pauthenet, E, Roquet, F, Madec, G, Guinet, C, Hindell, M orcid:0000-0002-7823-7185 , McMahon, CR, Harcourt, R and Nerini, D 2018 , 'Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau' , Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 45, no. 18 , pp. 9774-9781 , doi:10.1029/2018GL079614 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079614>. Southern Ocean ecosystems tracking Antarctic Polar Front Kerguelen Plateau Southern Indian Ocean Southern Ocean fronts functional principal component analysis Article PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivtasmania https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079614 2022-02-21T23:17:43Z The location of the Antarctic Polar Front (PF) is mapped in the Southern Indian Ocean by decomposing the shape of temperature and salinity profiles into vertical modes using a functional Principal Component Analysis. We define the PF as the northernmost minimum of temperature at the subsurface and represent it as a linear combination of the first three modes. This method is applied on an ocean reanalysis data set and on in situ observations, revealing a seasonal variability of the PF latitudinal position that is most pronounced between the Conrad Rise and the Kerguelen Plateau. This shift coincides with variations in the transport across the Northern Kerguelen Plateau. We suggest that seasonal changes of the upper stratification may drive the observed variability of the PF, with potentially large implications for the pathways and residence time of water masses over the plateau and the phytoplankton bloom extending southeast of the Kerguelen Islands. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Kerguelen Islands Southern Ocean University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic Kerguelen Kerguelen Islands Indian Conrad Rise ENVELOPE(41.000,41.000,-53.000,-53.000) Geophysical Research Letters 45 18 9774 9781 |
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The location of the Antarctic Polar Front (PF) is mapped in the Southern Indian Ocean by decomposing the shape of temperature and salinity profiles into vertical modes using a functional Principal Component Analysis. We define the PF as the northernmost minimum of temperature at the subsurface and represent it as a linear combination of the first three modes. This method is applied on an ocean reanalysis data set and on in situ observations, revealing a seasonal variability of the PF latitudinal position that is most pronounced between the Conrad Rise and the Kerguelen Plateau. This shift coincides with variations in the transport across the Northern Kerguelen Plateau. We suggest that seasonal changes of the upper stratification may drive the observed variability of the PF, with potentially large implications for the pathways and residence time of water masses over the plateau and the phytoplankton bloom extending southeast of the Kerguelen Islands. |
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Pauthenet, E Roquet, F Madec, G Guinet, C Hindell, M McMahon, CR Harcourt, R Nerini, D |
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Pauthenet, E Roquet, F Madec, G Guinet, C Hindell, M McMahon, CR Harcourt, R Nerini, D |
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Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau |
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Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau |
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Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau |
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