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How Does Labrador Sea Water Enter the Deep Western Boundary Current?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Labrador Sea Water (LSW), a dense water mass formed by convection in the subpolar North Atlantic, is an important constituent of the meridional overturning circulation. Understanding how the water mass enters the deep ...
The Deep Ocean Buoyancy Budget and Its Temporal Variability
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: espite slow rates of ocean mixing, observational and modeling studies suggest that buoyancy is redistributed to all depths of the ocean on surprisingly short interannual to decadal time scales. The mechanisms responsible ...
Response of the Ocean Natural Carbon Storage to Projected Twenty-First-Century Climate Change
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he separate impacts of wind stress, buoyancy fluxes, and CO2 solubility on the oceanic storage of natural carbon are assessed in an ensemble of twentieth- to twenty-first-century simulations, using a coupled atmosphere?o ...
Ekman and Eddy Exchange of Freshwater and Oxygen across the Labrador Shelf Break
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractTransport of freshwater from the Labrador Shelf into the interior Labrador Sea has the potential to impact deep convection via its influence on the salinity of surface waters. To examine this transport, the authors ...
Role of Mesoscale Eddies in Cross-Frontal Transport of Heat and Biogeochemical Tracers in the Southern Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his study examines the role of processes transporting tracers across the Polar Front (PF) in the depth interval between the surface and major topographic sills, which this study refers to as the ?PF core.? A preindustrial ...
The GFDL CM3 Coupled Climate Model: Characteristics of the Ocean and Sea Ice Simulations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his paper documents time mean simulation characteristics from the ocean and sea ice components in a new coupled climate model developed at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). The GFDL Climate Model version ...