Arctic/Atlantic Exchanges via the Subpolar Gyre*
Arctic/Atlantic Exchanges via the Subpolar Gyre*
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通过副极地环流的北极/大西洋交流*
DOI:
10.1175/jcli-d-11-00085.1
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
O. Otterå
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作者:
H. Langehaug;I. Medhaug;T. Eldevik;O. Otterå
In the present study the decadal variability in the strength and shape of the subpolar gyre (SPG) in a 600-yr preindustrial simulation using the Bergen Climate Model is investigated. The atmospheric influence on the SPG strength is reflected in the variability of Labrador Sea Water (LSW), which is largely controlled by the North Atlantic Oscillation, the first mode of the North Atlantic atmospheric variability. A combination of the amount of LSW, the overflows from the Nordic seas, and the second mode of atmospheric variability, the East Atlantic Pattern, explains 44% of the modeled decadal variability in the SPG strength. A prior increase in these components leads to an intensified SPG in the western subpolar region. Typically, an increase of one standard deviation (std dev) of the total overflow (1 std dev 5 0.2 Sv; 1 Sv [ 10 6 m 3 s 21 ) corresponds to an intensificationofaboutone-halfstddevoftheSPGstrength(1stddev 52 Sv).Asimilarresponseisfoundfor an increase of one std dev in the amount of LSW, and simultaneously the strength of the North Atlantic Current increases by one-half std dev (1 std dev 5 0.9 Sv).
影响因子:
3.6
作者:
Aksenov, Yevgeny;Ivanov, Vladimir V.;Beszczynska-Moeller, Agnieszka
通讯作者:
Beszczynska-Moeller, Agnieszka