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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 40, 期 21, 页码 5710-5715出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058104
关键词
sea level; Southern Ocean; Southern Annular Mode; regional sea level
资金
- Australian Research Council
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science
- Merit Allocation Scheme on the NCI National Facility at the ANU
On regional scales, changes in sea level are significantly affected by local dynamical changes. Westerly winds over the Southern Ocean have been strengthening and shifting southward in recent decades, and this change is projected to continue in the future. This study applies wind forcing anomalies to an eddy-permitting ocean model to study the dynamical response to a Southern Hemisphere westerly wind increase and/or southward shift. It is shown that the applied wind anomalies result in a change in sea surface slope across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current such that a fall in sea level occurs around the Antarctic continental margin. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport and regional sea level are particularly sensitive to latitudinal shifts in the wind, with a much more muted response found when only wind strengthening is applied. In addition to the local sea level changes, Southern Ocean winds also have a global effect through changing ocean heat content and the global overturning circulation.
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