The global influence of localized dynamics in the Southern Ocean

SR Rintoul - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The circulation of the Southern Ocean connects ocean basins, links the deep and shallow
layers of the ocean, and has a strong influence on global ocean circulation, climate …

Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling

J Marshall, K Speer - Nature geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
The meridional overturning circulation of the ocean plays a central role in climate and
climate variability by storing and transporting heat, fresh water and carbon around the globe …

Closure of the global overturning circulation through the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans: Schematics and transports

LD Talley - Oceanography, 2013 - JSTOR
The overturning pathways for the surface-ventilated North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) and
Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) and the diffusively formed Indian Deep Water (IDW) and …

On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

LM Beal, WPM De Ruijter, A Biastoch, R Zahn - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract The Atlantic Ocean receives warm, saline water from the Indo-Pacific Ocean
through Agulhas leakage around the southern tip of Africa. Recent findings suggest that …

High-latitude controls of thermocline nutrients and low latitude biological productivity

JL Sarmiento, N Gruber, MA Brzezinski, JP Dunne - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
The ocean's biological pump strips nutrients out of the surface waters and exports them into
the thermocline and deep waters. If there were no return path of nutrients from deep waters …

Ocean circulation kinetic energy: Reservoirs, sources, and sinks

R Ferrari, C Wunsch - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The ocean circulation is a cause and consequence of fluid scale interactions ranging from
millimeters to more than 10,000 km. Although the wind field produces a large energy input to …

[HTML][HTML] Global ocean meridional overturning

R Lumpkin, K Speer - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global Ocean Meridional Overturning in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 37
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On the driving processes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

T Kuhlbrodt, A Griesel, M Montoya… - Reviews of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Because of its relevance for the global climate the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
(AMOC) has been a major research focus for many years. Yet the question of which physical …

[HTML][HTML] An eddy-permitting Southern Ocean state estimate

MR Mazloff, P Heimbach… - Journal of Physical …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
An Eddy-Permitting Southern Ocean State Estimate in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
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Water-mass transformation by sea ice in the upper branch of the Southern Ocean overturning

RP Abernathey, I Cerovecki, PR Holland… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Ocean overturning circulation requires a continuous thermodynamic transformation of the
buoyancy of seawater. The steeply sloping isopycnals of the Southern Ocean provide a …