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| Durgadoo, Jonathan V.; Loveday, Benjamin R.; Reason, Chris J. C.; Penven, Pierrick; Biastoch, Arne. |
| The Agulhas Current plays a crucial role in the thermohaline circulation through its leakage into the South Atlantic Ocean. Under both past and present climates, the trade winds and westerlies could have the ability to modulate the amount of Indian-Atlantic inflow. Compelling arguments have been put forward suggesting that trade winds alone have little impact on the magnitude of Agulhas leakage. Here, employing three ocean models for robust analysisa global coarse-resolution, a regional eddy-permitting, and a nested high-resolution eddy-resolving configurationand systematically altering the position and intensity of the westerly wind belt in a series of sensitivity experiments, it is shown that the westerlies, in particular their intensity, control the... |
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Palavras-chave: Boundary currents; Meridional overturning circulation; Wind stress; Mesoscale models; Numerical analysis; Modeling. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00161/27247/25452.pdf |
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| Macgilchrist, Graeme A.; Johnson, Helen L.; Marshall, David P.; Lique, Camille; Thomas, Matthew; Jackson, Laura C.; Wood, Richard A.. |
| A substantial fraction of the deep ocean is ventilated in the high-latitude North Atlantic. Consequently, the region plays a crucial role in transient climate change through the uptake of carbon dioxide and heat. However, owing to the Lagrangian nature of the process, many aspects of deep Atlantic Ocean ventilation and its representation in climate simulations remain obscure. We investigate the nature of ventilation in the high latitude North Atlantic in an eddy-permitting numerical ocean circulation model using a comprehensive set of Lagrangian trajectory experiments. Backwards-in-time trajectories from a model-defined ‘North Atlantic DeepWater’ (NADW) reveal the locations of subduction from the surface mixed layer at high spatial resolution. The major... |
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Palavras-chave: North Atlantic Ocean; Atmosphere-ocean interaction; Lagrangian circulation/transport; Ocean circulation; Boundary currents; Diapycnal mixing. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00646/75833/76825.pdf |
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| Rattan, Sanjay; Myers, Paul G.; Treguier, Anne-marie; Theetten, Sebastien; Biastoch, Arne; Boening, Claus. |
| Model drift in the Labrador Sea in eddy permitting model simulations is examined using a series of configurations based on the NEMO numerical framework. There are two phases of the drift that we can identify, beginning with an initial rapid 3-year period, associated with the adjustment of the model from its initial conditions followed by an extended model drift/adjustment that continued for at least another decade. The drift controlled the model salinity in the Labrador Sea, over-riding the variability. Thus, during this initial period, similar behavior was observed between the inter-annually forced experiments as with perpetual year forcing. The results also did not depend on whether the configuration was global, or regional North Atlantic Ocean. The... |
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Palavras-chave: Numerical modelling; Labrador Sea; Model salinity drift; Boundary currents; Eddy-permitting models. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00013/12411/9226.pdf |
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