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The upper branch of the Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation

Tip projekta
Znanstveno-istraživački projekti
Program
The New International Fellowship Mobility Programme for Experienced Researchers in Croatia
Financijer
Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja Republike Hrvatske
Datum početka
16.1.2014.
Datum završetka
15.1.2017.
Status
Završen
Iznos financiranja
72316 EUR
Više informacija

The global ocean overturning circulation plays a central role in climate and climate variability bystoring and transporting heat, fresh water, carbon and nutrients around the world ocean. Whilethe primary site of surface water subduction into ocean interior in the North Atlantic is wellstudied and understood, the return pathway and the dominant physical processes by whichdeep waters return to the surface in the Southern Ocean to close the meridional overturningcirculation is still not well known. Yet, the deep water upwelling in the Southern Ocean is offundamental importance for climate, since the upwelled waters control the rate of ocean heatand carbon uptake from the atmosphere, and supply of nutrients for the global thermocline. Wepropose to provide a three-dimensional quantitative estimates of water masses that comprisethe returning portion of the overturning circulation and physical processes involved using theresults of a data assimilating ocean circulation model.

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