Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3414605f&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 14, CiteID L14605
Physics
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Oceanography: General: Arctic And Antarctic Oceanography (9310, 9315), Oceanography: General: Numerical Modeling (0545, 0560), Oceanography: Physical: Deep Recirculations, Oceanography: Physical: General Circulation (1218, 1222)
Scientific paper
This study shows that the surface buoyancy conditions in the Northern Hemisphere may influence the stratification and transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). We use a course-resolution ocean general circulation model (OGCM) in an idealized single-basin configuration with a circumpolar channel. A decrease in the magnitude of the surface temperature meridional gradient in the Northern Hemisphere reduces production of the deep water, affecting the interhemispheric Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) and deepening the thermocline in both hemispheres. The induced change of stratification in the Southern Hemisphere circumpolar region increases the zonal volume transport of circumpolar current because of an increase in the local meridional density gradient and the associated thermal wind shear, which is the dominant baroclinic component of the total volume transport. The result is robust to variations in the background vertical mixing and the parameterization scheme for mesoscale eddies.
Fučkar Neven S.
Vallis Geoffrey K.
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