Sensitivity of Southern Ocean overturning to wind stress changes: Role of surface restoring time scales by Zhai, X, Munday, D

“…The influence of different surface restoring time scales on the response of the Southern Ocean overturning circulation to wind stress changes is investigated using an idealised channel model. …”

A Southern Ocean supergyre as a unifying dynamical framework identified by physics-informed machine learning by Maike Sonnewald, Krissy Anne Reeve, Redouane Lguensat

“…Abstract The Southern Ocean closes the global overturning circulation and is key to the regulation of carbon, heat, biological production, and sea level. …”
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Thermal coupling of the Indo-Pacific warm pool and Southern Ocean over the past 30,000 years by Shuai Zhang, Zhoufei Yu, Yue Wang, Xun Gong, Ann Holbourn, Fengming Chang, Heng Liu, Xuhua Cheng, Tiegang Li

“…Here, the authors shed light on the pivotal role of the thermal coupling between the western Pacific warm pool and the Southern Ocean.…”
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Southern Ocean polynyas and dense water formation in a high-resolution, coupled Earth system model by H. Jeong, H. Jeong, H. Jeong, A. K. Turner, A. F. Roberts, M. Veneziani, S. F. Price, X. S. Asay-Davis, L. P. Van Roekel, W. Lin, P. M. Caldwell, H.-S. Park, H.-S. Park, J. D. Wolfe, A. Mametjanov

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Structural zoning of the African-Antarctic Sector of the Southern Ocean based on the analysis of anomalous gravity and magnetic fields by D.A. Ryzhova, E.P. Dubinin, M.V. Kosnyreva, A.A. Bulychev

“…The African-Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean is the least studied part of the World Ocean, the structure and evolution of the tectonosphere of which remains debatable. …”
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Improved winter data coverage of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink from extrapolation of summertime observations by Neill Mackay, Andrew J. Watson, Parvada Suntharalingam, Zhaohui Chen, Peter Landschützer

“…Uncertainties in the CO2 flux in the Southern Ocean, produced by a lack of direct wintertime observations, can be addressed by a combination of pseudo observations and neural network machine learning-based mapping.…”
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Contrasting Responses to Nutrient Enrichment of Prokaryotic Communities Collected from Deep Sea Sites in the Southern Ocean by Gerard T. A. Fleming, John W. Patching, David A. Pearce, David M. McCarthy

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Southern Ocean Echinoids database – An updated version of Antarctic, Sub-Antarctic and cold temperate echinoid database by Salomé Fabri-Ruiz, Thomas Saucède, Bruno Danis, Bruno David

“…This database includes over 7,100 georeferenced occurrence records of sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) obtained from samples collected in the Southern Ocean (+180°W/+180°E; -35°/-78°S) during oceanographic cruises led over 150 years, from 1872 to 2015. …”
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Controls on nitrite oxidation in the upper Southern Ocean: insights from winter kinetics experiments in the Indian sector by M. Mdutyana, M. Mdutyana, T. Marshall, X. Sun, X. Sun, J. M. Burger, S. J. Thomalla, B. B. Ward, S. E. Fawcett, S. E. Fawcett

“…<p>Across the Southern Ocean in winter, nitrification is the dominant mixed-layer nitrogen cycle process, with some of the nitrate produced therefrom persisting to fuel productivity during the subsequent growing season. …”
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Twenty-six years of phytoplankton pigments reveal a circumpolar Class Divide around the Southern Ocean by Alexander Hayward, Matthew H. Pinkerton, Simon W. Wright, Andrés Gutiérrez-Rodriguez, Cliff S. Law

“…Abstract Regional taxonomic variation of phytoplankton communities in the Southern Ocean remains largely uncharacterised despite the distinct trophic and biogeochemical roles of different taxa in anthropogenic carbon uptake, biogeochemical processes, and as the primary source of energy for marine ecosystems. …”
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Oxygen and pCO₂ in the Surface Waters of the Atlantic Southern Ocean in 2021–2022 by Natalia A. Orekhova, Sergey K. Konovalov, Alexander A. Polukhin, Anna M. Seliverstova

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On the relationship between mesoscale cellular convection and meteorological forcing: comparing the Southern Ocean against the North Pacific by F. Lang, F. Lang, S. T. Siems, S. T. Siems, Y. Huang, Y. Huang, T. Alinejadtabrizi, T. Alinejadtabrizi, T. Alinejadtabrizi, L. Ackermann

“…A convolutional neural network model is used to identify the two idealized classes of MCC clouds, namely open and closed, over the Southern Ocean (SO) and Northwest Pacific (NP) from high-frequency geostationary Himawari-8 satellite observations. …”
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Characterization of a Southern Ocean deep chlorophyll maximum: Response of phytoplankton to light, iron, and manganese enrichment by Pauline Latour, Sam Eggins, Pier van derMerwe, Lennart T. Bach, Philip W. Boyd, Michael J. Ellwood, Andrew R. Bowie, Kathrin Wuttig, Robert F. Strzepek

“…Abstract Southern Ocean phytoplankton growth is limited by low iron (Fe) supply and irradiance, impacting the strength of the biological carbon pump. …”
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Revaluation of zooplankton wet weight data of the NORPAC net samples collected in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean by Yukiko Ukai, Kunio T. Takahashi, Mitsuo Fukuchi, Atsushi Tanimura

“…The Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) has been conducting routine observations of zooplankton in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean with standard NORPAC nets (mesh size: 330 μm and 100 μm) every austral summer since the 1972/73 season (JARE-14). …”
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Improved accuracy and spatial resolution for bio-logging-derived chlorophyll a fluorescence measurements in the Southern Ocean by Loïc Le Ster, Loïc Le Ster, Hervé Claustre, Francesco d’Ovidio, David Nerini, Baptiste Picard, Christophe Guinet

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Unveiling the co-phylogeny signal between plunderfish Harpagifer spp. and their gut microbiomes across the Southern Ocean by Guillaume Schwob, Léa Cabrol, Thomas Saucède, Karin Gérard, Elie Poulin, Julieta Orlando

“…Here, we propose that the recent diversification of several Harpagifer species across the Southern Ocean would allow the detection of robust phylogenetic congruence between the host and its microbiome. …”
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Effects of dust storm and wildfire events on phytoplankton growth in the Southern Ocean and Tasman Sea, southeast Australia by Nguyen Hiep Duc, Leys John, Riley Matthew, White Stephen, Azzi Merched, Trieu Toan, Salter David, Ji Fei, Nguyen Huynh, Chang Lisa Tzu-Chi, Monk Khalia, Firth Justine, Fuchs David, Barthelemy Xavier

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Wilkes subglacial basin ice sheet response to Southern Ocean warming during late Pleistocene interglacials by Ilaria Crotti, Aurélien Quiquet, Amaelle Landais, Barbara Stenni, David J. Wilson, Mirko Severi, Robert Mulvaney, Frank Wilhelms, Carlo Barbante, Massimo Frezzotti

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First phytoplankton community assessment of the Kong Håkon VII Hav, Southern Ocean, during austral autumn by H. M. Kauko, P. Assmy, I. Peeken, M. Różańska-Pluta, J. M. Wiktor, G. Bratbak, A. Singh, A. Singh, T. J. Ryan-Keogh, S. Moreau

“…<p>We studied phytoplankton and protozooplankton community composition based on light microscopy, flow cytometry, and photosynthetic pigment data in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during March 2019 (early austral autumn). …”
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Measurements of Cloud Radiative Effect across the Southern Ocean (43° S–79° S, 63° E–158° W) by Haoran Wang, Andrew R. Klekociuk, W. John R. French, Simon P. Alexander, Tom A. Warner

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