New insights into air-sea fluxes and their role in Subantarctic Mode Water formation

V Tamsitt - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The formation of Subantarctic Mode Water SAMW in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in
the global oceanic uptake and storage of anthropogenic heat and carbon. Wintertime ocean …

[HTML][HTML] Global connectivity of Southern Ocean ecosystems

EJ Murphy, NM Johnston, EE Hofmann… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Southern Ocean ecosystems are globally important. Processes in the Antarctic atmosphere,
cryosphere, and the Southern Ocean directly influence global atmospheric and oceanic …

A clearer view of Southern Ocean air–sea interaction using surface heat flux asymmetry

SA Josey, JP Grist, JV Mecking… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Progress in understanding Southern Ocean heat exchange and wind forcing is discussed
and new results presented. These include a metric of the zonal asymmetry between surface …

[HTML][HTML] The origin and fate of Subantarctic Mode Water in the Southern Ocean

Z Li, MH England, S Groeskamp… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) forms in deep mixed layers just north of the
Antarctic Circumpolar Current in winter, playing a fundamental role in the ocean uptake of …

Finale: impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding

AJS Meijers, MP Meredith… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The 5-year Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports
(ORCHESTRA) programme and its 1-year extension ENCORE (ENCORE is the National …

Subantarctic mode water biogeochemical formation properties and interannual variability

SM Bushinsky, I Cerovečki - Agu Advances, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Subantarctic mode water (SAMW) is a key water mass for the transport of nutrients, oxygen,
and anthropogenic carbon into the ocean interior. However, a lack of biogeochemical …

Zonally asymmetric increase in Southern Ocean heat content

M Hague, M Münnich, N Gruber - Journal of Climate, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
A zonally symmetric perspective has proven to be very useful in studying the key role of the
Southern Ocean for global ocean heat uptake. Despite this, reconstructions of changes in …

The daily‐resolved Southern Ocean mixed layer: regional contrasts assessed using glider observations

MD Du Plessis, S Swart, LC Biddle… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Water mass transformation in the Southern Ocean is vital for driving the large‐scale
overturning circulation, which transports heat from the surface to the ocean interior. Using …

Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

KR Clem, S Adusumilli, R Baiman… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is one chapter from the State of the Climate in 2022
annual report and is available from https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0077.1. Compiled …

Buoyancy and wind driven changes in Subantarctic Mode Water during 2004–2019

L Xu, Y Ding, SP **e - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) is a thick low‐stratified subsurface water
mass located north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and it is important for heat uptake …