Collaborative Research: Carbon System and CFCs in the Southeast Pacific Subantarctic Mode Water/Antarctic Intermediate Water Formation Region

深层混合层在上层海洋中占主导地位，亚南极模态水（SAMW）和南极中层水（AAIW）在东南太平洋亚南极锋（SAF）以北形成。寒冷的厚层具有低盐度和高气体含量，几乎充满了整个南半球和热带海洋的低温跃层到中等深度。 SAMW/AAIW的形成对人为CO2的海洋汇有重大影响，其最大的不确定性是在中间深度。然而，AAIW可能是唯一的中间深度，大规模的水团，没有在冬季的主要来源进行研究。在这个项目中，来自迈阿密大学罗森斯蒂尔海洋大气科学学院和加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥斯克里普斯海洋学研究所的研究人员将研究东南太平洋SAMW/AAIW形成的过程。 虽然该项目的总体目标是表征东南太平洋形成区SAMW/AAIW厚层中的碳和示踪剂性质，但也需要测量碳系统参数和氯氟烃（CFC）：1）绘制主要SAMW/AAIW形成区冬季碳系统和CFC性质图; 2）比较观察到的冬季海气CO2不平衡的平均不平衡项估计使用？C* 方法; 3）调查海洋上层特征（例如，对流，涡流，交错，电流）的碳和示踪剂的新形成的深层混合层SAMW/AAIW的特点;和4）估计CFC年龄和当地AAIW的形成率，以评估平流与新形成的AAIW的混合的相对影响。 美国和智利的合作成果将填补全球海洋观测中的一个重要而巨大的空白，无论是影响长期气候变化的物理过程还是控制碳循环的过程。研究结果将广泛传播，以提高科学和技术认识，并将用于控制海洋内部吸收和输送人为二氧化碳的过程模型。

ABSTRACTOCE-0424744 / OCE-0424921Deep mixed layers dominate the upper ocean where Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) are formed in the southeastern (SE) Pacific north of the Subantarctic Front (SAF). The cold thick layers have low salinity and high gas content that fills almost all of the southern hemisphere and tropical oceans at lower thermocline to intermediate depths. SAMW/AAIW formation has a major impact on the oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2, whose largest uncertainty is at intermediate depths. However, AAIW is probably the only intermediate-depth, large-scale water mass that has not been studied in winter at its major source. In this project, researchers from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science and the University of California-San Diego Scripps Institute of Oceanography will study the processes responsible for the formation of SAMW/AAIW in the SE Pacific. Though the overall goal of the project is to characterize carbon and tracer properties in the thick SAMW/AAIW layers in the SE Pacific formation region, measurements of carbon system parameters and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) also be taken to: 1) map wintertime carbon system and CFC properties in the major SAMW/AAIW formation region; 2) compare the observed wintertime air-sea CO2 disequilibrium to the average disequilibrium terms estimated using the ?C* approach; 3) investigate the possible relationship of upper ocean features (e.g., convection, eddies, interleaving, currents) to the carbon and tracer characteristics of newly formed deep mixed layers of SAMW/AAIW; and 4) estimate CFC ages and a local AAIW formation rate to assess the relative effects of advection versus mixing of newly formed AAIW. The results yielded from this US and Chilean collaboration will fill an important and large gap in global ocean observations, both for physical processes that impact long-term climate change and for processes governing the carbon cycle. The results will be disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological understanding and will be available for use in models of processes that control the uptake and transport of anthropogenic CO2 into the ocean interior.