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30 Sep 2024
| OSR8 | Chapter 2.2
| 30 Sep 2024 | OSR8 | Chapter 2.2
Changes in the Gulf Stream path over the last 3 decades
Antonio Sánchez-Román
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Department of Oceanography and Global Change, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marqués, 21, 07190 Esporles, Spain
Flora Gues
Mercator Ocean International, 2 Av. de l'Aérodrome de Montaudran, 31400 Toulouse, France
CELAD, 48 Rte de Lavaur, 31130 Balma, France
Romain Bourdalle-Badie
Mercator Ocean International, 2 Av. de l'Aérodrome de Montaudran, 31400 Toulouse, France
Marie-Isabelle Pujol
Collecte Localisation Satellites, Parc Technologique du Canal, 11 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Ananda Pascual
Department of Oceanography and Global Change, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marqués, 21, 07190 Esporles, Spain
Marie Drévillon
Mercator Ocean International, 2 Av. de l'Aérodrome de Montaudran, 31400 Toulouse, France
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Vertical velocity in the ocean makes an important contribution to the modulation of marine ecosystems through its impact on fluxes of nutrients and phytoplankton. Here, we estimate full 3-D current velocity fields from an observation-based data product. The 3-D currents are used to force a set of particle-tracking (Lagrangian) experiments. The Lagrangian results show that vertical motions induce local increases in nitrate uptake reaching up to 30 %.
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Field campaigns are instrumental in providing ground truth for understanding and modeling global ocean biogeochemical budgets. A survey however can only inspect a fraction of the global oceans, typically a region hundreds of kilometers wide for a temporal window of the order of (at most) several weeks. In this spatiotemporal domain, mesoscale variability can mask climatological contrasts. Here we propose the use of multisatellite-based Lagrangian diagnostics to solve this issue.
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Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 1577–1594, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1577-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-1577-2015, 2015
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1/12th degree resolution runs of Arctic--Atlantic were compared for the period 2003-2009. We found good representation of sea surface height and of its statistics; model temperature and salinity in general agreement with in situ measurements, but upper ocean properties in Beaufort Sea are challenging; distribution of concentration and volume of sea ice is improved when slowing down the ice and further improvements require better initial conditions and modifications to mixing.
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Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 69–86, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-69-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-69-2015, 2015
M.-H. Rio, A. Pascual, P.-M. Poulain, M. Menna, B. Barceló, and J. Tintoré
Ocean Sci., 10, 731–744, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-731-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-731-2014, 2014
P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, V. Artale, G. L. Borzelli-Eusebi, S. Brenner, A. Crise, M. Gacic, N. Kress, S. Marullo, M. Ribera d'Alcalà, S. Sofianos, T. Tanhua, A. Theocharis, M. Alvarez, Y. Ashkenazy, A. Bergamasco, V. Cardin, S. Carniel, G. Civitarese, F. D'Ortenzio, J. Font, E. Garcia-Ladona, J. M. Garcia-Lafuente, A. Gogou, M. Gregoire, D. Hainbucher, H. Kontoyannis, V. Kovacevic, E. Kraskapoulou, G. Kroskos, A. Incarbona, M. G. Mazzocchi, M. Orlic, E. Ozsoy, A. Pascual, P.-M. Poulain, W. Roether, A. Rubino, K. Schroeder, J. Siokou-Frangou, E. Souvermezoglou, M. Sprovieri, J. Tintoré, and G. Triantafyllou
Ocean Sci., 10, 281–322, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-281-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-281-2014, 2014
A. M. Treguier, J. Deshayes, J. Le Sommer, C. Lique, G. Madec, T. Penduff, J.-M. Molines, B. Barnier, R. Bourdalle-Badie, and C. Talandier
Ocean Sci., 10, 243–255, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-243-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-243-2014, 2014
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This study investigates the changing pattern of the Gulf Stream over the last 3 decades as observed in the altimetric record (1993–2022). Changes in the Gulf Stream path have an effect on its speed (and associated energy) and also on waters transported towards the subpolar North Atlantic, impacting Europe's climate. The observed shifts in the paths seem to be linked to variability in the North Atlantic Ocean during winter that may play an important role.
This study investigates the changing pattern of the Gulf Stream over the last 3 decades as...
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