South Atlantic Interocean Linkages Study (SAILS)

0118363 Matano/OSU该项目的目的是使用数值模拟来研究南大西洋上层回流携带热量和盐穿过盆地的路线，以及中尺度涡旋在这种传输中的作用。 首先，将对现有的全球和大西洋模拟进行诊断研究。 随后将进行过程研究，以检验关于太平洋和印度洋上层温跃层沃茨通过南大西洋进入热带的路径的假设。 该项目的总体目标是：（1）了解南部水源、南极绕极流和厄古拉斯流的规模变化如何影响南大西洋上层海洋向热带输出的规模和相对组成，（2）了解调节副热带环流的平均环流和变化的机制及其与海洋间交换的联系，（3）确定南大西洋环流对南半球风强迫变化的敏感性。

0118363Matano/OSUThe purpose of the is project is to use numerical modeling to examine the routes by which the upper return flow in the South Atlantic carries heat and salt across the basin and the role that mesoscale eddies play in this transport. First, diagnostic studies of existing global and Atlantic simulations will be made. This will be followed by process studies designed to test hypotheses about the paths of Pacific and Indian Ocean upper thermocline waters through the South Atlantic to the tropics. The project's broad goals are: (1) to understand how changes in magnitude of southern sources of water, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the Agulhas Current, affect the magnitude and relative composition of South Atlantic upper ocean export to the tropics, (2) to understand the mechanisms that regulate the mean circulation and variability of the subtropical gyre and their linkage to interocean exchanges, and (3) to determine the sensitivity of the South Atlantic circulation to changes in wind forcing in the southern hemisphere.