Southern ocean dynamics and biogeochemistry in a changing climate: introduction and overview

dc.contributor.authorDownes, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorWeijer, Wilbert
dc.contributor.authorJeffery, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorMazloff, Matthew
dc.contributor.authorRussell, Joellen
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-24T02:43:28Z
dc.date.available2015-03-24T02:43:28Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThe Southern Ocean has a unique place in our climate system. It is a region of extremes, where the world's strongest ocean currents, the strongest wind regime, the most extensive sea ice cover, and the largest ice sheets interact (for example, see the recent review by Rintoul and Naveira Garabato, 2013). In addition, it houses a very productive ecosystem that sequesters a significant fraction of the anthropogenic CO2 in the ocean (Sabine et al., 2004; Takahashi et al., 2012). Studying the Southern Ocean has proven to be a significant challenge, for several reasons. Among those are the logistical difficulties of making observations in these remote and vast parts of the world, due also to the harsh weather conditions and extensive sea ice cover in winter months. But arguably a more important factor is the immense complexity of the Southern Ocean climate system, where so many tightly coupled components interact on so many temporal and spatial scales. A case in point is the surprising expansion of winter sea ice in the Weddell Sea in recent years, amidst significant warming trends (Barthélemy et al., 2012; Mathiot et al., 2010; Stössel et al., 2011).en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipS.M. Downes was supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (Grant CE110001028). W. Weijer was supported by the Regional and Global Climate Modeling program of the US Department of Energy Office of Science.en_AU
dc.format2 pagesen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0967-0645
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/13035
dc.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE110001028en_AU
dc.rights© 2015 Elsevier B.V. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0967-0645/ author can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing), author can archive post-print (ie final draft post-refereeing), Authors pre-print on any website, including arXiv and RePEC, Author's post-print on author's personal website immediately, Author's post-print on open access repository after an embargo period of between 12 months and 48 months (Sherp/Romeo as of 18/5/2015). Received email dated 25/3/2015 from author Stephanie Downes pre-print version. 25/3/2015en_AU
dc.sourceDeep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanographyen_AU
dc.subjectSouthern Oceanen_AU
dc.subjectclimate systemen_AU
dc.subjectsea iceen_AU
dc.subjecttemporal and spatial scalesen_AU
dc.titleSouthern ocean dynamics and biogeochemistry in a changing climate: introduction and overviewen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDownes, Stephanie M., RSES General, CPMS Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailStephanie.Downes@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu5113372en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.02.013en_AU
local.identifier.essn1879-0100en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4579722en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.elsevier.com/en_AU
local.type.statusSubmitted Versionen_AU

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