Southern Ocean Decadal Variability and Predictability.

Latif, Mojib , Martin, Torge , Reintges, Annika and Park, Wonsun (2017) Southern Ocean Decadal Variability and Predictability. Open Access Current Climate Change Reports, 3 (3). pp. 163-173. DOI 10.1007/s40641-017-0068-8.

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Abstract

The Southern Ocean featured some remarkable changes during the recent decades. For example, large parts of the Southern Ocean, despite rapidly rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, depicted a surface cooling since the 1970s, whereas most of the planet has warmed considerably. In contrast, climate models generally simulate Southern Ocean surface warming when driven with observed historical radiative forcing. The mechanisms behind the surface cooling and other prominent changes in the Southern Ocean sector climate during the recent decades, such as expanding sea ice extent, abyssal warming, and CO2 uptake, are still under debate. Observational coverage is sparse, and records are short but rapidly growing, making the Southern Ocean climate system one of the least explored. It is thus difficult to separate current trends from underlying decadal to centennial scale variability. Here, we present the state of the discussion about some of the most perplexing decadal climate trends in the Southern Ocean during the recent decades along with possible mechanisms and contrast these with an internal mode of Southern Ocean variability present in state-of-the art climate models.

Document Type: Article
Keywords: Southern Ocean; Climate trends; Internal variability; Atmosphere-ice-ocean interaction; Open-ocean deep convection; Climate models
Research affiliation: OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB1 Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics > FB1-TM Theory and Modeling
OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB1 Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics > FB1-ME Maritime Meteorology
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: No
Publisher: Springer
Projects: PalMod in-kind, KCM
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Date Deposited: 15 Aug 2017 12:04
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2020 09:02
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/39115

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