Role of Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics in Air-Sea Coupling over the Southern Ocean

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项目编号	1559151
	Role of Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics in Air-Sea Coupling over the Southern Ocean
	Igor Kamenkovich
主持机构	University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine&Atmospheric Sci
项目开始年	2016
	2016-06-01
项目结束日期	2019-05-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Standard Grant
项目经费	829465(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	The atmosphere and ocean interact on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, and these interactions modulate weather and climate variability, as well as oceanic uptake of anomalous heat and carbon. At the oceanic mesoscale (about 10 to 100 km scales), advection is sufficiently strong to create strong gradients in sea surface temperature. As air blows across these very sharp fronts, the atmosphere cannot fully adjust, which leads to significant effects such as atmospheric cooling (warming) of warm (cold) sea surface temperatures. These effects are well pronounced in the Southern Ocean, where powerful mesoscale variability abounds. The main goal of this project is to explore mesoscale atmosphere-ocean interactions in the Southern Ocean and to understand how the ocean mesoscale creates sharp sea surface temperature fronts that modulate these interactions. This study will serve to inform global climate modeling efforts in terms of the identifying the key processes and required ocean resolution needed to correctly capture air-sea interactions. The project will advance a career of a female investigator and will train two graduate students in the fields of Physical Oceanography and Climate Science. Atmosphere-ocean coupling at mesoscale plays an important, but poorly understood role in climate variability, atmosphere and ocean dynamics, uptake of atmospheric gases and biogeochemistry. Understanding of this coupling has large practical importance for climate modeling, because a vast majority of climate models cannot fully resolve the mesoscale, which leads to biases in the simulations. The main hypothesis of this project is that a significant part of the sea surface temperature anomaly variability at the oceanic mesoscale is driven by mesoscale oceanic advection. The analysis will be carried out in a fully coupled model system in which mesoscale sea surface temperature anomalies both affect and are affected by the atmosphere, and the study will employ a blend of advanced theoretical considerations, comprehensive coupled simulations and targeted idealized studies, all with high resolution in the ocean. The particular focus of this study is on the Southern Ocean, both because of its large role in climate and because mesoscale variability is ubiquitous there, but our conclusions are expected to be relevant to the other parts of the World Ocean. One particular strength of this research is the merging of comprehensive climate simulations with a combination of idealized modeling and theory, in a fully coupled regime and with dynamically consistent mesoscale ocean circulation.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Ocean Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/69635
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Igor Kamenkovich.Role of Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics in Air-Sea Coupling over the Southern Ocean.2016.