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RISEddy Modulation of Air–Sea Interaction and Convection
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Eddy modulation of the air?sea interaction and convection that occurs in the process of mode water formation is analyzed in simulations of a baroclinically unstable wind- and buoyancy-driven jet. The watermass transformation ...
North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water Volume Decrease in 2006–09 Estimated from Argo Observations: Influence of Surface Formation and Basin-Scale Oceanic Variability
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: nalysis of Argo temperature and salinity profiles (gridded at 0.5° ? 0.5° resolution for 2005?12) shows a strong North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water (NPSTMW) volume and density decrease during 2006?09. In this time period, ...
The Spatiotemporal Structure of Diabatic Processes Governing the Evolution of Subantarctic Mode Water in the Southern Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: coupled ice?ocean eddy-permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate (SOSE) for 2008?10 is used to describe and quantify the processes forming and destroying water in the Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) density range (σ? = ...
How Purely Wind-Driven Long Planetary Geostrophic Waves May Be Energized in the Western Part of Ocean Subtropical Gyres
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Satellite observations and idealized numerical studies reveal intensification of long-period (on the order of one cycle per year) waves in the western part of ocean basins. The authors explore the idea that the intensification ...
Eddy Transport and Mixing in a Wind- and Buoyancy-Driven Jet on the Sphere
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The baroclinically unstable wind- and buoyancy-driven flow in a zonally reentrant pie-shaped sector on a sphere is numerically modeled and then analyzed using the transformed Eulerian-mean (TEM) formalism. Mean fields are ...
Initially Forced Long Planetary Waves in the Presence of Nonzonal Mean Flow
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to understand how long planetary waves evolve when propagating in a subtropical gyre. The steady flow of a wind-driven vertically sheared model subtropical gyre is perturbed by Ekman pumping ...
Strong Quasi-Stationary Wintertime Atmospheric Surface Pressure Anomalies Drive a Dipole Pattern in the Subantarctic Mode Water Formation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Subantarctic Mode Water Formation, Destruction, and Export in the Eddy-Permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ubantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) is examined using the data-assimilating, eddy-permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate, for 2005 and 2006. Surface formation due to air?sea buoyancy flux is estimated using Walin analysis, and ...
Using Transformation and Formation Maps to Study the Role of Air–Sea Heat Fluxes in North Atlantic Eighteen Degree Water Formation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Walin water mass framework quantifies the rate at which water is transformed from one temperature class to another by air?sea heat fluxes (transformation). The divergence of the transformation rate yields the rate at ...
Annular Modes in a Multiple Migrating Zonal Jet Regime
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The authors investigate the dynamics of zonal jets in a semihemisphere zonally reentrant ocean model. The forcings imposed in the model are an idealized atmospheric wind stress and relaxation to a latitudinal temperature ...