Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time‐scale
The global ocean overturning circulation, critically dependent on the global density stratification, plays a central role in regulating climate evolution. While it is well-known that the global stratification profile exhibits a strong dependence to Southern Ocean dynamics and in particular to wind a...
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| description | The global ocean overturning circulation, critically dependent on the global density stratification, plays a central role in regulating climate evolution. While it is well-known that the global stratification profile exhibits a strong dependence to Southern Ocean dynamics and in particular to wind and buoyancy forcing, we demonstrate here that the stratification is also acutely sensitive to the mesoscale eddy energy dissipation time-scale. Within the context of a global ocean circulation model with an energy constrained mesoscale eddy parameterization, it is shown that modest variations in the eddy energy dissipation time-scale lead to significant variations in key metrics relating to ocean circulation, namely the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation strength, and global ocean heat content, over long time-scales. The results highlight a need to constrain uncertainties associated with eddy energy dissipation for climate model projections over centennial time-scales, but also for paleoclimate simulations over millennial time-scales.
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:3a0a8cbe-02e5-4d04-9e86-c1d0170175b92022-05-13T08:29:32ZAcute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time‐scaleJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:3a0a8cbe-02e5-4d04-9e86-c1d0170175b9EnglishSymplectic ElementsWiley2022Mak, JMarshall, DPMadec, GMaddision, JRThe global ocean overturning circulation, critically dependent on the global density stratification, plays a central role in regulating climate evolution. While it is well-known that the global stratification profile exhibits a strong dependence to Southern Ocean dynamics and in particular to wind and buoyancy forcing, we demonstrate here that the stratification is also acutely sensitive to the mesoscale eddy energy dissipation time-scale. Within the context of a global ocean circulation model with an energy constrained mesoscale eddy parameterization, it is shown that modest variations in the eddy energy dissipation time-scale lead to significant variations in key metrics relating to ocean circulation, namely the Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation strength, and global ocean heat content, over long time-scales. The results highlight a need to constrain uncertainties associated with eddy energy dissipation for climate model projections over centennial time-scales, but also for paleoclimate simulations over millennial time-scales. |
| spellingShingle | Mak, J Marshall, DP Madec, G Maddision, JR Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time‐scale |
| title | Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time‐scale |
| title_full | Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time‐scale |
| title_fullStr | Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time‐scale |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time‐scale |
| title_short | Acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time‐scale |
| title_sort | acute sensitivity of global ocean circulation and heat content to eddy energy dissipation time scale |
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