The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations
Description: Release of code used in the analysis and creation of figures in du Plessis et al. 2022: The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations in support of open-code, transparency, and repeatability. This code is neither a standalone packag...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:5076119 2023-05-15T18:18:11+02:00 The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations du Plessis, Marcel Sebastiaan Swart Louise Biddle Isabelle Giddy Chris Reason Andrew Thompson Pedro Monteiro Sarah-Anne Nicholson 2022-03-10 https://zenodo.org/record/5076119 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5076119 eng eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/Horizon 2020 Framework Programme - Research and Innovation action/821001/ doi:10.5281/zenodo.5076118 https://zenodo.org/communities/polar-gliders https://zenodo.org/record/5076119 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5076119 oai:zenodo.org:5076119 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Oceanography Climate Gliders Air-Sea Fluxes info:eu-repo/semantics/other other 2022 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.507611910.5281/zenodo.5076118 2023-03-11T01:02:10Z Description: Release of code used in the analysis and creation of figures in du Plessis et al. 2022: The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations in support of open-code, transparency, and repeatability. This code is neither a standalone package nor professional software. Abstract: Water mass transformation in the Southern Ocean is vital for driving the large-scale overturning circulation, which transports heat from the surface to the ocean interior. Using profiling gliders, this study investigates the role of summertime buoyancy forcing and wind-driven processes on the intraseasonal (1-10 days) mixed layer thermohaline variability in three Southern Ocean regions southwest of Africa important for water mass transformation - the Subantarctic Zone (SAZ), Polar Frontal Zone (PFZ) and Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ). At intraseasonal time scales, heat flux was shown as the main driver of buoyancy gain in all regions. In the SAZ and MIZ, shallow mixed layers and strong stratification enhanced mixed layer buoyancy gain by trapping incoming heat, while buoyancy loss resulted primarily from the entrainment of cold, salty water from below. In the PFZ, rapid mixing linked to Southern Ocean storms set persistently deep mixed layers and suppressed mixed layer intraseasonal (1-10 days) thermohaline variability. In the polar regions, lateral stirring of meltwater from seasonal sea-ice melt dominated daily mixed layer salinity variability. We propose that these meltwater fronts are advected to the PFZ during late summer, indicating the potential for seasonal sea-ice freshwater to impact a region where the upwelling limb of overturning circulation reaches the surface. This study reveals a regional dependence of how the mixed layer thermohaline properties respond to small spatio-temporal processes, emphasizing the importance of surface forcing occurring between 1-10 days on the mixed layer water mass transformation in the Southern Ocean. Related dataset: ... Other/Unknown Material Sea ice Southern Ocean Zenodo Southern Ocean |
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Description: Release of code used in the analysis and creation of figures in du Plessis et al. 2022: The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations in support of open-code, transparency, and repeatability. This code is neither a standalone package nor professional software. Abstract: Water mass transformation in the Southern Ocean is vital for driving the large-scale overturning circulation, which transports heat from the surface to the ocean interior. Using profiling gliders, this study investigates the role of summertime buoyancy forcing and wind-driven processes on the intraseasonal (1-10 days) mixed layer thermohaline variability in three Southern Ocean regions southwest of Africa important for water mass transformation - the Subantarctic Zone (SAZ), Polar Frontal Zone (PFZ) and Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ). At intraseasonal time scales, heat flux was shown as the main driver of buoyancy gain in all regions. In the SAZ and MIZ, shallow mixed layers and strong stratification enhanced mixed layer buoyancy gain by trapping incoming heat, while buoyancy loss resulted primarily from the entrainment of cold, salty water from below. In the PFZ, rapid mixing linked to Southern Ocean storms set persistently deep mixed layers and suppressed mixed layer intraseasonal (1-10 days) thermohaline variability. In the polar regions, lateral stirring of meltwater from seasonal sea-ice melt dominated daily mixed layer salinity variability. We propose that these meltwater fronts are advected to the PFZ during late summer, indicating the potential for seasonal sea-ice freshwater to impact a region where the upwelling limb of overturning circulation reaches the surface. This study reveals a regional dependence of how the mixed layer thermohaline properties respond to small spatio-temporal processes, emphasizing the importance of surface forcing occurring between 1-10 days on the mixed layer water mass transformation in the Southern Ocean. Related dataset: ... |
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du Plessis, Marcel Sebastiaan Swart Louise Biddle Isabelle Giddy Chris Reason Andrew Thompson Pedro Monteiro Sarah-Anne Nicholson |
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du Plessis, Marcel Sebastiaan Swart Louise Biddle Isabelle Giddy Chris Reason Andrew Thompson Pedro Monteiro Sarah-Anne Nicholson |
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The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations |
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The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations |
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The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations |
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The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations |
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The daily-resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations |
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daily-resolved southern ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations |
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