Abstract: n eddy-permitting state estimate and its adjoint are used to analyze the influence of wind stress perturbations on the transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) system through Drake Passage. The transport is ...

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? = ...

Abstract: An eddy-permitting general circulation model of the Southern Ocean is fit by constrained least squares to a large observational dataset during 2005?06. Data used include Argo float profiles, CTD synoptic sections, Southern ...

Abstract: he Southern Ocean (SO) limb of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is characterized by three vertically stacked cells, each with a transport of about 10 Sv (Sv ≡ 106 m3 s?1). The buoyancy transport in the SO is ...

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 ...

Abstract: he Kerguelen Plateau is a major topographic feature in the Southern Ocean. Located in the Indian sector and spanning nearly 2000 km in the meridional direction from the polar to the subantarctic region, it deflects the ...

Abstract: data-assimilating one-third degree regional dynamical ocean model is evaluated on its ability to synthesize components of the Tropical Pacific Ocean observing system. The 4D-Var assimilation method adjusts initial conditions ...

Abstract: he authors have intercompared the following six surface buoyancy flux estimates, averaged over the years 2005?07: two reanalyses [the recent ECMWF reanalysis (ERA-Interim; hereafter ERA), and the National Centers for ...