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Author Smith, S.R. ; Lopez, N. ; Bourassa, M.A.
Title SAMOS air-sea fluxes: 2005-2014 Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
Year 2016 Publication Geoscience Data Journal Abbreviated Journal Geosci. Data J.
Volume 3
Issue 1
Pages 9-19
Keywords air-sea flux ; marine meteorology ; marine climatology ; heat flux ; wind stress
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Author Steffen, J. ; Bourassa, M.
Title Barrier Layer Development Local to Tropical Cyclones based on Argo Float Observations Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Physical Oceanography Abbreviated Journal J. Phys. Oceanogr.
Volume 48
Issue 9
Pages 1951-1968
Keywords SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE ; UPPER-OCEAN RESPONSE ; NINO SOUTHERN-OSCILLATION ; MIXED-LAYER ; INDIAN-OCEAN ; HEAT-BUDGET ; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ; HURRICANES ; VARIABILITY ; PACIFIC
Abstract The objective of this study is to quantify barrier layer development due to tropical cyclone (TC) passage using Argo float observations of temperature and salinity. To accomplish this objective, a climatology of Argo float measurements is developed from 2001 to 2014 for the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and central Pacific basins. Each Argo float sample consists of a prestorm and poststorm temperature and salinity profile pair. In addition, a no-TC Argo pair dataset is derived for comparison to account for natural ocean state variability and instrument sensitivity. The Atlantic basin shows a statistically significant increase in barrier layer thickness (BLT) and barrier layer potential energy (BLPE) that is largely attributable to an increase of 2.6 m in the post-TC isothermal layer depth (ITLD). The eastern Pacific basin shows no significant changes to any barrier layer characteristic, likely due to a shallow and highly stratified pycnocline. However, the near-surface layer freshens in the upper 30 m after TC passage, which increases static stability. Finally, the central Pacific has a statistically significant freshening in the upper 20-30 m that increases upper-ocean stratification by similar to 35%. The mechanisms responsible for increases in BLPE vary between the Atlantic and both Pacific basins; the Atlantic is sensitive to ITLD deepening, while the Pacific basins show near-surface freshening to be more important in barrier layer development. In addition, Argo data subsets are used to investigate the physical relationships between the barrier layer and TC intensity, TC translation speed, radial distance from TC center, and time after TC passage.
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Author Wallcraft, A.J. ; Kara, A.B. ; Hurlburt, H.E. ; Chassignet, E.P. ; Halliwell, G.H.
Title Value of bulk heat flux parameterizations for ocean SST prediction Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
Year 2008 Publication Journal of Marine Systems Abbreviated Journal Journal of Marine Systems
Volume 74
Issue 1-2
Pages 241-258
Keywords Bulk heat fluxes ; Ocean model SST ; Exchange coefficients ; Atmospheric forcing ; Climate
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Author Zavala-Hidalgo, J ; Pares-Sierra, A ; Ochoa, J
Title Seasonal variability of the temperature and heat fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
Year 2002 Publication Atmosfera Abbreviated Journal
Volume 15
Issue 2
Pages 81-104
Keywords Gulf of Mexico ; heat fluxes ; numerical model ; sea surface temperature ; seasonal variability
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Author Zhang, M. ; Wu, Z. ; Qiao, F.
Title Deep Atlantic Ocean Warming Facilitated by the Deep Western Boundary Current and Equatorial Kelvin Waves Type $loc['typeJournal Article']
Year 2018 Publication Journal of Climate Abbreviated Journal J. Climate
Volume 31
Issue 20
Pages 8541-8555
Keywords Ocean ; Atlantic Ocean ; Heating ; Kelvin waves ; Ocean circulation ; Oceanic variability ; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION ; NONSTATIONARY TIME-SERIES ; NORTH-ATLANTIC ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; HEAT-CONTENT ; HIATUS ; VARIABILITY ; CIRCULATION ; TEMPERATURE ; PACIFIC
Abstract Increased heat storage in deep oceans has been proposed to account for the slowdown of global surface warming since the end of the twentieth century. How the imbalanced heat at the surface has been redistributed to deep oceans remains to be elucidated. Here, the evolution of deep Atlantic Ocean heat storage since 1950 on multidecadal or longer time scales is revealed. The anomalous heat in the deep Labrador Sea was transported southward by the shallower core of the deep western boundary current (DWBC). Upon reaching the equator around 1980, this heat transport route bifurcated into two, with one continuing southward along the DWBC and the other extending eastward along a narrow strip (about 4 degrees width) centered at the equator. In the 1990s and 2000s, meridional diffusion helped to spread warming in the tropics, making the eastward equatorial warming extension have a narrow head and wider tail. The deep Atlantic Ocean warming since 1950 had overlapping variability of approximately 60 years. The results suggest that the current basinwide Atlantic Ocean warming at depths of 1000-2000 m can be traced back to the subsurface warming in the Labrador Sea in the 1950s. An inference from these results is that the increased heat storage in the twenty-first century in the deep Atlantic Ocean is unlikely to partly account for the atmospheric radiative imbalance during the last two decades and to serve as an explanation for the current warming hiatus.
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