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A warm jet in a cold ocean

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: A warm jet in a cold ocean
المؤلفون: MacKinnon, Jennifer A, Simmons, Harper L, Hargrove, John, Thomson, Jim, Peacock, Thomas, Alford, Matthew H, Barton, Benjamin I, Boury, Samuel, Brenner, Samuel D, Couto, Nicole, Danielson, Seth L, Fine, Elizabeth C, Graber, Hans C, Guthrie, John, Hopkins, Joanne E, Jayne, Steven R, Jeon, Chanhyung, Klenz, Thilo, Lee, Craig M, Lenn, Yueng-Djern, Lucas, Andrew J, Lund, Björn, Mahaffey, Claire, Norman, Louisa, Rainville, Luc, Smith, Madison M, Thomas, Leif N, Torres-Valdés, Sinhué, Wood, Kevin R
المصدر: Nature
بيانات النشر: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
الوصف: Unprecedented quantities of heat are entering the Pacific sector of the Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait, particularly during summer months. Though some heat is lost to the atmosphere during autumn cooling, a significant fraction of the incoming warm, salty water subducts (dives beneath) below a cooler fresher layer of near-surface water, subsequently extending hundreds of kilometers into the Beaufort Gyre. Upward turbulent mixing of these sub-surface pockets of heat is likely accelerating sea ice melt in the region. This Pacific-origin water brings both heat and unique biogeochemical properties, contributing to a changing Arctic ecosystem. However, our ability to understand or forecast the role of this incoming water mass has been hampered by lack of understanding of the physical processes controlling subduction and evolution of this this warm water. Crucially, the processes seen here occur at small horizontal scales not resolved by regional forecast models or climate simulations; new parameterizations must be developed that accurately represent the physics. Here we present novel high resolution observations showing the detailed process of subduction and initial evolution of warm Pacific-origin water in the southern Beaufort Gyre.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: Nature Communications; https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138886; MacKinnon, Jennifer A, Simmons, Harper L, Hargrove, John, Thomson, Jim, Peacock, Thomas et al. 2021. "A warm jet in a cold ocean." Nature Communications, 12 (1).
الاتاحة: https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138886
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.DF57B135
قاعدة البيانات: BASE