Resolving and parameterising the ocean mesoscale in earth system models

HT Hewitt, M Roberts, P Mathiot, A Biastoch… - Current Climate Change …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Assessment of the impact of ocean resolution in Earth System
models on the mean state, variability, and future projections and discussion of prospects for …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in understanding of Indian Ocean circulation, variability, air–sea exchange, and impacts on biogeochemistry

HE Phillips, A Tandon, R Furue, R Hood… - Ocean …, 2021 - os.copernicus.org
Over the past decade, our understanding of the Indian Ocean has advanced through
concerted efforts toward measuring the ocean circulation and air–sea exchanges, detecting …

Recent intensification of Amazon flooding extremes driven by strengthened Walker circulation

J Barichivich, E Gloor, P Peylin, RJW Brienen… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The Amazon basin is the largest watershed on Earth. Although the variability of the Amazon
hydrological cycle has been increasing since the late 1990s, its underlying causes have …

[HTML][HTML] The submesoscale kinetic energy cascade: Mesoscale absorption of submesoscale mixed layer eddies and frontal downscale fluxes

R Schubert, J Gula, RJ Greatbatch… - Journal of Physical …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mesoscale eddies can be strengthened by the absorption of submesoscale eddies resulting
from mixed layer baroclinic instabilities. This is shown for mesoscale eddies in the Agulhas …

Lagrangian views of the pathways of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

A Bower, S Lozier, A Biastoch, K Drouin… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Lagrangian method—where current location and intensity are determined by tracking
the movement of flow along its path—is the oldest technique for measuring the ocean …

Indian Ocean sources of Agulhas leakage

JV Durgadoo, S Rühs, A Biastoch… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the mean pathways, transit timescales, and transformation of waters flowing
from the Pacific and the marginal seas through the Indian Ocean (IO) on their way toward the …

Thirty years of GOSHIP and WOCE data: Atlantic overturning of mass, heat, and freshwater transport

V Caínzos, A Hernández‐Guerra… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays a vital role in global
climate, redistributing heat, and freshwater. It is predicted to decline due to anthropogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Cold vs. warm water route–sources for the upper limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation revisited in a high-resolution ocean model

S Rühs, FU Schwarzkopf, S Speich, A Biastoch - Ocean Science, 2019 - os.copernicus.org
The northward flow of the upper limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
(AMOC) is fed by waters entering the South Atlantic from the Indian Ocean mainly via the …

A new record of Atlantic sea surface salinity from 1896 to 2013 reveals the signatures of climate variability and long‐term trends

AR Friedman, G Reverdin, M Khodri… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Sea surface salinity (SSS) is a major ocean circulation component and indicator of the
hydrological cycle. Here we investigate an unprecedented Atlantic SSS compilation from …

A near-synoptic survey of ocean microplastic concentration along an around-the-world sailing race

T Tanhua, SB Gutekunst, A Biastoch - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Litter and plastic pollution in the marine environment is of major concern when considering
the health of ocean ecosystems, and have become an important focus of ocean research …