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Southern Ocean [in 'State of the Climate in 2014]
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Meredith, MP and Mazloff, M and Sallee, J-B and Newman, L and Wahlin, A and Williams, MJM and Naviera Garabato, AC and Swart, S and Montiero, P and Mata, MM and Schmidtko, S, Southern Ocean [in 'State of the Climate in 2014], American Meteorological Society. Bulletin, 97, (8) pp. S157-S160. ISSN 0003-0007 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
The Southern Ocean (oceans poleward of 60°S)
exerts a disproportionately strong influence on global
climate, so determining its changing state is of key
importance in understanding the planetary-scale
system (Meredith et al. 2013). This is a consequence
of the connectedness of the Southern Ocean, which
links the other major ocean basins and is a site of
strong lateral fluxes of climatically important tracers
(Lumpkin and Speer 2007). It is also a consequence
of processes occurring within the Southern Ocean,
including the vigorous overturning circulation that
leads to the formation of new water masses (Marshall
and Speer 2012), and to the strong exchange of carbon,
heat, and other climatically relevant properties
at the ocean surface (Sallée et al. 2012). However, determining
the state of the Southern Ocean in a given
year is even more problematic than for other ocean basins, due to the paucity of observations (see Sidebar
6.2). Nonetheless, using the limited data available,
some key aspects of the state of the Southern Ocean
in 2014 can be ascertained.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | climate, Southern Ocean |
| Research Division: | Earth Sciences |
| Research Group: | Oceanography |
| Research Field: | Physical Oceanography |
| Objective Division: | Environment |
| Objective Group: | Other Environment |
| Objective Field: | Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Oceanography |
| Author: | Newman, L (Dr Louise Newman) |
| ID Code: | 114621 |
| Year Published: | 2015 |
| Deposited By: | Centre for Oceans and Cryosphere |
| Deposited On: | 2017-02-22 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-03-07 |
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