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Nyadjro, E.S. ; Rydbeck, A.V. ; Jensen, T.G. ; Richman, J.G. ; Shriver, J.F.
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On the Generation and Salinity Impacts of Intraseasonal Westward Jets in the Equatorial Indian Ocean
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2020
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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J. Geophys. Res. Oceans
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125
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6
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e2020JC016066
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ndian Ocean ; intraseasonal variability ; westward Jet ; intraseasonal oscillations ; mixed layer salinity ; surface currents
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While westerly winds dominate the equatorial Indian Ocean and generate the well‐known eastward flowing Wyrtki Jets during boreal spring and fall, there is evidence of a strong westward surface jet during winter that is swifter than eastward currents during that season. A weaker westward jet is found in summer. In this study, we report the occurrence, characteristics, and intraseasonal variability of this westward jet and its impact on mixed layer salinity in the equatorial Indian Ocean using the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) reanalysis with the Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation (NCODA). The westward jet typically occurs in the upper 50 m, above an eastward flowing equatorial undercurrent, with peak westward volume transport of approximately −8 Sv. The westward jet builds up gradually, decays rapidly, and is primarily forced by local intraseasonal wind stress anomalies generated by atmospheric intraseasonal convection. Westward acceleration of the jet occurs when the dominant intraseasonal westward wind anomaly is not balanced by the zonal pressure gradient (ZPG) force. The intraseasonal westward jet generates strong horizontal advection and is the leading cause of mixed layer freshening in the western equatorial Indian Ocean. Without it, a saltier mixed layer would persist and weaken any barrier layers. Existing barrier layers are strengthened following the passage of freshwater‐laden westward jets. Deceleration of the westward jet occurs when the eastward ZPG becomes increasingly important and the westward intraseasonal wind anomalies weaken. A rapid reversal of atmospheric intraseasonal convection‐driven surface winds eventually terminates the westward jet.
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O'hara, S. H. ; Arko, R. A. ; Clark, D. ; Chandler, C. L. ; Elya, J. L. ; Ferrini, V. L. ; McLain, K. ; Olson, C. J. ; Sellers, C. J. ; Smith, S. R. ; Stocks, K. I. ; Stolp, L. ; Carbotte, S. M.
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Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program Data Services for the Oceanographic Research Community
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2018
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American Geophysical Union
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4299 General or miscellaneous, OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
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Research vessels supported by NSF are critical platforms contributing to academic oceanographic research in the US. The “underway” data sets obtained from the continuously operating geophysical, water column, and meteorological sensors aboard these vessels provide characterization of basic environmental conditions for the oceans and are of high scientific value for building global syntheses, climatologies, and historical time series of ocean properties (e.g the World Ocean Atlas, the GMRT bathymetric synthesis, ICOADS). The Rolling deck to Repository program (www.rvdata.us) provides a central shore-side data gateway that ensures the basic documentation, assessment and submission of all environmental data from ship operators to the NOAA long-term archives for these data. R2R provides a set of data services for the oceanographic research community, including: publishing an online, searchable and browsable master cruise catalog, supported by cruise and data set DOIs; organizing, archiving, and disseminating original underway data and documents; assessing data quality on select data types; creating select post-field data products; and supporting at-sea event logging. In this presentation we will discuss new developments in R2R data services and challenges associated with ship-based data management. A significant challenge is the dramatic increase in data volumes associated with new sensors (e.g. the EK80 Sonar systems) whereby individual cruise distributions can be several terabytes. Ship operators, R2R and NCEI must design a way to move and store these growing volumes. R2R is also working to make information more accessible and complete. A new website has been launched along with API web services that allow users to find and use data more easily. R2R is working to improve device metadata, including working to identify the time sources for all environmental sensors to support accurate comparison and merging of data sets.
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O'hara, S. H. ; Arko, R. A. ; Clark, D. ; Chandler, C. L. ; Elya, J. L. ; Ferrini, V. L. ; McLain, K. ; Olson, C. J. ; Sellers, C. J. ; Smith, S. R. ; Stocks, K. I. ; Stolp, L. ; Carbotte, S. M.
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Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program Data Services for the Oceanographic Research Community
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$loc['typeAbstract']
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2018
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American Geophysical Union
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AGU
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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2018
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OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
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Research vessels supported by NSF are critical platforms contributing to academic oceanographic research in the US. The “underway” data sets obtained from the continuously operating geophysical, water column, and meteorological sensors aboard these vessels provide characterization of basic environmental conditions for the oceans and are of high scientific value for building global syntheses, climatologies, and historical time series of ocean properties (e.g the World Ocean Atlas, the GMRT bathymetric synthesis, ICOADS). The Rolling deck to Repository program (www.rvdata.us) provides a central shore-side data gateway that ensures the basic documentation, assessment and submission of all environmental data from ship operators to the NOAA long-term archives for these data. R2R provides a set of data services for the oceanographic research community, including: publishing an online, searchable and browsable master cruise catalog, supported by cruise and data set DOIs; organizing, archiving, and disseminating original underway data and documents; assessing data quality on select data types; creating select post-field data products; and supporting at-sea event logging. In this presentation we will discuss new developments in R2R data services and challenges associated with ship-based data management. A significant challenge is the dramatic increase in data volumes associated with new sensors (e.g. the EK80 Sonar systems) whereby individual cruise distributions can be several terabytes. Ship operators, R2R and NCEI must design a way to move and store these growing volumes. R2R is also working to make information more accessible and complete. A new website has been launched along with API web services that allow users to find and use data more easily. R2R is working to improve device metadata, including working to identify the time sources for all environmental sensors to support accurate comparison and merging of data sets.
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1020
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Parfitt, R. ; Ummenhofer, C.C. ; Buckley, B.M. ; Hansen, K.G. ; D'Arrigo, R.D.
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Distinct seasonal climate drivers revealed in a network of tree-ring records from Labrador, Canada
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2020
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Climate Dynamics
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Clim Dyn
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54
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3-4
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1897-1911
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BLUE INTENSITY ; LATEWOOD DENSITY ; TEMPERATURE ; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY ; PRECIPITATION ; STANDARDIZATION ; VARIABILITY ; NUNATSIAVUT ; TRENDS ; GULF
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Traditionally, high-latitude dendroclimatic studies have focused on measurements of total ring width (RW), with the maximum density of the latewood (MXD) serving as a complementary variable. Whilst MXD has typically improved the strength of the growing season climate connection over that of RW, its measurements are costly and time-consuming. Recently, a less costly and more time-efficient technique to extract density measurements has emerged, based on lignin's propensity to absorb blue light. This Blue Intensity (BI) methodology is based on image analyses of finely-sanded core samples, and the relative ease with which density measurements can be extracted allows for significant increases in spatio-temporal sample depth. While some studies have attempted to combine RW and MXD as predictors for summer temperature reconstructions, here we evaluate a systematic comparison of the climate signal for RW and latewood BI (LWBI) separately, using a recently updated and expanded tree ring database for Labrador, Canada. We demonstrate that while RW responds primarily to climatic drivers earlier in the growing season (January-April), LWBI is more responsive to climate conditions during late spring and summer (May-August). Furthermore, RW appears to be driven primarily by large-scale atmospheric dynamics associated with the Pacific North American pattern, whilst LWBI is more closely associated with local climate conditions, themselves linked to the behaviour of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Lastly, we demonstrate that anomalously wide or narrow growth rings consistently respond to the same climate drivers as average growth years, whereas the sensitivity of LWBI to extreme climate conditions appears to be enhanced.
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1119
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Proshutinsky, A. ; Krishfield, R. ; Toole, J.M. ; Timmermans, M.-L. ; Williams, W. ; Zimmermann, S. ; Yamamoto-Kawai, M. ; Armitage, T.W.K. ; Dukhovskoy, D. ; Golubeva, E. ; Manucharyan, G.E. ; Platov, G. ; Watanabe, E. ; Kikuchi, T. ; Nishino, S. ; Itoh, M. ; Kang, S.-H. ; Cho, K.-H. ; Tateyama, K. ; Zhao, J.
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Analysis of the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Content in 2003-2018
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2019
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J Geophys Res Oceans
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124
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12
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Arctic Ocean ; Beaufort Gyre ; circulation ; climate change ; freshwater balance ; modeling
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Hydrographic data collected from research cruises, bottom-anchored moorings, drifting Ice-Tethered Profilers, and satellite altimetry in the Beaufort Gyre region of the Arctic Ocean document an increase of more than 6,400 km(3) of liquid freshwater content from 2003 to 2018: a 40% growth relative to the climatology of the 1970s. This fresh water accumulation is shown to result from persistent anticyclonic atmospheric wind forcing (1997-2018) accompanied by sea ice melt, a wind-forced redirection of Mackenzie River discharge from predominantly eastward to westward flow, and a contribution of low salinity waters of Pacific Ocean origin via Bering Strait. Despite significant uncertainties in the different observations, this study has demonstrated the synergistic value of having multiple diverse datasets to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of Beaufort Gyre freshwater content variability. For example, Beaufort Gyre Observational System (BGOS) surveys clearly show the interannual increase in freshwater content, but without satellite or Ice-Tethered Profiler measurements, it is not possible to resolve the seasonal cycle of freshwater content, which in fact is larger than the year-to-year variability, or the more subtle interannual variations.
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Physical Oceanography Laboratory Ocean University of China, Qingdao China
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1097
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Proshutinsky, A. ; Krishfield, R. ; Toole, J.M. ; Timmermans, M.-L. ; Williams, W. ; Zimmermann, S. ; Yamamoto-Kawai, M. ; Armitage, T.W.K. ; Dukhovskoy, D. ; Golubeva, E. ; Manucharyan, G.E. ; Platov, G. ; Watanabe, E. ; Kikuchi, T. ; Nishino, S. ; Itoh, M. ; Kang, S.-H. ; Cho, K.-H. ; Tateyama, K. ; Zhao, J.
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Analysis of the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Content in 2003-2018
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2019
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J Geophys Res Oceans
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124
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12
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9658-9689
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Arctic Ocean ; Beaufort Gyre ; circulation ; climate change ; freshwater balance ; modeling
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Hydrographic data collected from research cruises, bottom-anchored moorings, drifting Ice-Tethered Profilers, and satellite altimetry in the Beaufort Gyre region of the Arctic Ocean document an increase of more than 6,400 km(3) of liquid freshwater content from 2003 to 2018: a 40% growth relative to the climatology of the 1970s. This fresh water accumulation is shown to result from persistent anticyclonic atmospheric wind forcing (1997-2018) accompanied by sea ice melt, a wind-forced redirection of Mackenzie River discharge from predominantly eastward to westward flow, and a contribution of low salinity waters of Pacific Ocean origin via Bering Strait. Despite significant uncertainties in the different observations, this study has demonstrated the synergistic value of having multiple diverse datasets to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of Beaufort Gyre freshwater content variability. For example, Beaufort Gyre Observational System (BGOS) surveys clearly show the interannual increase in freshwater content, but without satellite or Ice-Tethered Profiler measurements, it is not possible to resolve the seasonal cycle of freshwater content, which in fact is larger than the year-to-year variability, or the more subtle interannual variations.
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Physical Oceanography Laboratory Ocean University of China, Qingdao China
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1102
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Rahaman, H. ; Srinivasu, U. ; Panickal, S. ; Durgadoo, J.V. ; Griffies, S.M. ; Ravichandran, M. ; Bozec, A. ; Cherchi, A. ; Voldoire, A. ; Sidorenko, D.. ; Chassignet, E.P. ; Danabasoglu, G. ; Tsujino, H. ; Getzlaff, K. ; Ilicak, M. ; Bentsen, M. ; Long, M.C. ; Fogli, P.G. ; Farneti, R. ; Danilov, S. ; Marsland, S.J. ; Valcke, S. ; Yeager, S.G. ; Wang, Q.
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An assessment of the Indian Ocean mean state and seasonal cycle in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations
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2020
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Ocean Modelling
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Ocean Modelling
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145
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1087
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Roberts, M.J. ; Jackson, L.C. ; Roberts, C.D. ; Meccia, V. ; Docquier, D. ; Koenigk, T. ; Ortega, P. ; Moreno‐ ; Chamarro, E. ; Bellucci, A. ; Coward, A. ; Drijfhout, S. ; Exarchou, E. ; Gutjahr, O. ; Hewitt, H. ; Iovino, D. ; Lohmann, K. ; Putrasahan, D. ; Schiemann, R. ; Seddon, J. ; Terray, L. ; Xu, X. ; Zhang, Q. ; Chang, P. ; Yeager, S.G. ; Castruccio, F.S. ; Zhang. C. ; Wu, L.
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Sensitivity of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to Model Resolution in CMIP6 HighResMIP Simulations and Implications for Future Changes
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2020
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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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A multi‐model, multi‐resolution ensemble using CMIP6 HighResMIP coupled experiments is used to assess the performance of key aspects of the North Atlantic circulation. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and related heat transport, tends to become stronger as ocean model resolution is enhanced, better agreeing with observations at 26.5°N. However for most models the circulation remains too shallow compared to observations, and has a smaller temperature contrast between the northward and southward limbs of the AMOC. These biases cause the northward heat transport to be systematically too low for a given overturning strength. The higher resolution models also tend to have too much deep mixing in the subpolar gyre. In the period 2015‐2050 the overturning circulation tends to decline more rapidly in the higher resolution models, which is related to both the mean state and to the subpolar gyre contribution to deep water formation. The main part of the decline comes from the Florida Current component of the circulation. Such large declines in AMOC are not seen in the models with resolutions more typically used for climate studies, suggesting an enhanced risk for Northern Hemisphere climate change. However, only a small number of different ocean models are included in the study.
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1109
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Robinson, W. ; Speich, S. ; Chassignet, E.
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Exploring the Interplay Between Ocean Eddies and the Atmosphere
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2018
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Eos
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Eos
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99
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Mesoscale ; Climate ; Variability ; Atmospheric
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Climate models, for the first time, have sufficient resolution to capture mesoscale ocean eddies and their interactions with the atmosphere.New model results suggest that the atmosphere, at weather scales or larger, responds to cumulative effects of the much smaller ocean eddies. Intriguing new model results presented at the workshop suggested that the atmosphere, at weather scales or larger.
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988
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Rodríguez, E. ; Bourassa, M. ; Chelton, D. ; Farrar, J.T. ; Long, D. ; Perkovic-Martin, D. ; Samelson, R.
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The Winds and Currents Mission Concept
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2019
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Frontiers in Marine Science
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Front. Mar. Sci.
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6
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The Winds and Currents Mission (WaCM) is a proposed approach to meet the need identified by the NRC Decadal Survey for the simultaneous measurements of ocean vector winds and currents. WaCM features a Ka-band pencil-beam Doppler scatterometer able to map ocean winds and currents globally. We review the principles behind the WaCM measurement and the requirements driving the mission. We then present an overview of the WaCM observatory and tie its capabilities to other OceanObs reviews and measurement approaches.
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1063
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