An assessment of deep steric height variability over the global ocean

Details An assessment of deep steric height variability over the global ocean An assessment of deep steric height variability over the global ocean

Feb 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012georl..3904601p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 39, Issue 4, CiteID L04601

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Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (1616, 1635, 3305, 3309, 4513), Oceanography: General: Ocean Data Assimilation And Reanalysis (3225), Oceanography: General: Ocean Observing Systems, Oceanography: Physical: Eddies And Mesoscale Processes, Oceanography: Physical: Sea Level: Variations And Mean (1222, 1225, 1641)

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An ocean state estimate constrained by most available data is explored to assess characteristics of variability in deep steric height—a mostly unobserved quantity, yet important for understanding the relation between sea level, heat content and other ocean climate parameters. Results are based on monthly-averaged steric height anomalies, vertically integrated over the “unobserved” deep ocean (below ˜1700 m). Excluding linear trends, variability in deep steric height is typically 10-20% of that in the upper ocean, with larger values seen in extensive regions. Enhanced deep variability, at monthly to interannual time scales, occurs in areas of strong eddy energy. Deep signals are mostly thermosteric in nature, with halosteric contributions tightly correlated and generally compensating in the Atlantic and Indian oceans and adding in the Pacific. Potential inference of deep signals from knowledge of the upper ocean is hampered by poor correlations, and regressions based on upper ocean steric height fail to represent the estimated deep variability. Monthly sampling at ˜2° scales would allow for best determination of deep variability and long term trends.

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