Abstract: Nine hydrographic sections are combined in an inverse box model of the Southern Ocean south of ?12°S. The inverse model has two novel features: the inclusion of independent diapycnal flux unknowns for each property and the ...

Abstract: Nine hydrographic sections are combined in an inverse box model of the Southern Ocean south of ?12°S. The inclusion of independent diapycnal flux unknowns for each property and air?sea (heat, freshwater, and momentum) ...

Abstract: Estimates of area-averaged diapycnal fluxes for the southern oceans are derived from basin-scale budgets of mass, heat, and salt using a box inverse model. The diapycnal fluxes are found to be significant terms in the ...

Abstract: Southern Ocean air?sea fluxes from the COADS dataset are examined for compatibility between buoyancy gain and northward Ekman transport. An analysis in density classes points to an upwelling of Upper Circumpolar Deep Water ...

Abstract: The Southern Ocean?s Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) are two globally significant upper-ocean water masses that circulate in all Southern Hemisphere subtropical gyres and cross the ...

Abstract: The strength and structure of the Southern Hemisphere meridional overturning circulation (SMOC) is related to the along-isopycnal and vertical mixing coefficients by analyzing tracer and density fields from a hydrographic ...

Abstract: A method is developed for estimating the along-isopycnal and vertical mixing coefficients (K and D) and the absolute velocity from time-averaged hydrographic data. The method focuses directly on transports down tracer ...

Abstract: he East Australian Current (EAC) is the complex and highly energetic poleward western boundary current of the South Pacific Ocean. A full-depth current meter and property (temperature and salinity) mooring array was deployed ...

Abstract: Mean meridional upper-ocean temperature, salinity, and zonal velocity sections across the Pacific Ocean between 8°S and 8°N are combined with other oceanographic and air?sea flux data in an inverse model. The tropical ...