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DOI | 10.1029/2018GL080171 |
The Ice-Ocean Governor: Ice-Ocean Stress Feedback Limits Beaufort Gyre Spin-Up | |
Meneghello, Gianluca1; Marshall, John1; Campin, Jean-Michel1; Doddridge, Edward1; Timmermans, Mary-Louise2 | |
2018-10-28 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 45期号:20页码:11293-11299 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | The Beaufort Gyre is a key circulation system of the Arctic Ocean and its main reservoir of freshwater. Freshwater storage and release affects Arctic sea ice cover, as well as North Atlantic and global climate. We describe a mechanism that is fundamental to the dynamics of the gyre, namely, the ice-ocean stress governor. Wind blows over the ice, and the ice drags the ocean. But as the gyre spins up, currents catch the ice up and turn off the surface stress. This governor sets the basic properties of the gyre, such as its depth, freshwater content, and strength. Analytical and numerical modeling is employed to contrast the equilibration processes in an ice-covered versus ice-free gyre. We argue that as the Arctic warms, reduced sea ice extent and more mobile ice will result in a deeper and faster Beaufort Gyre, accumulating more freshwater that will be released by Ekman upwelling or baroclinic instability. Plain Language Summary The Beaufort Gyre, located north of Alaska and Canada, is a key circulation system of the Arctic Ocean. Changes in its depth and circulation influence the evolution of the Arctic sea ice cover, the North Atlantic circulation, and the global climate. The gyre is driven by persistent, ice-mediated winds, accumulating surface freshwater toward the center, deepening the gyre, and spinning up its currents. We describe a mechanism, dubbed here the ice-ocean governor, in which the interaction of surface currents with the ice regulates the depth of the Beaufort Gyre: The spinning up of the gyre reduces the relative speed between the ocean and the ice, and hence the freshwater accumulation. This competes with, and we argue is more important than, the release of freshwater by flow instability, which moves water from the center toward the periphery. In the current climate the depth and speed of the Beaufort Gyre are mainly set by the governor, but this may change in a warming world where reduced ice cover will render the ice-ocean governor less effective. The resulting deeper, swifter gyre will likely exhibit more variability in its freshwater storage and flow speeds. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000451510500056 |
WOS关键词 | WESTERN ARCTIC-OCEAN ; VARIABILITY ; TRANSPORT ; DYNAMICS ; SURFACE ; MODEL |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/26740 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.MIT, Dept Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA; 2.Yale Univ, Dept Geol & Geophys, New Haven, CT USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Meneghello, Gianluca,Marshall, John,Campin, Jean-Michel,et al. The Ice-Ocean Governor: Ice-Ocean Stress Feedback Limits Beaufort Gyre Spin-Up[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2018,45(20):11293-11299. |
APA | Meneghello, Gianluca,Marshall, John,Campin, Jean-Michel,Doddridge, Edward,&Timmermans, Mary-Louise.(2018).The Ice-Ocean Governor: Ice-Ocean Stress Feedback Limits Beaufort Gyre Spin-Up.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,45(20),11293-11299. |
MLA | Meneghello, Gianluca,et al."The Ice-Ocean Governor: Ice-Ocean Stress Feedback Limits Beaufort Gyre Spin-Up".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 45.20(2018):11293-11299. |
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