論文

査読有り 筆頭著者
2017年9月

Eddies Observed by Argo Floats. Part II: Form Stress and Streamline Length in the Southern Ocean

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
  • Katsuro Katsumata

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開始ページ
2237
終了ページ
2250
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1175/JPO-D-17-0072.1
出版者・発行元
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC

Argo floats measure horizontal current velocities at the parking depth and vertical profiles of temperature and salinity. These data were used to study the roles that eddies play in the dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in the Southern Ocean. A zonal momentum budget was quantified in a box spanning the latitudes of the Drake Passage and bounded by the sea surface and the 1000-dbar depth. The input of eastward zonal momentum from the wind (17.1 x 10(11) N) was approximately twice the downward transfer of eastward momentum across the isopycnal whose mean depth was 1000 dbar, which was mediated via form stress carried by eddies [(8.1 +/- 1.9) x 10(11) N]. The zonal momentum budget was closed to within uncertainty, meaning that the momentum not accounted for by eddies was explained by the Coriolis term associated with meridional transport. The form stress was spatially concentrated near meridional ridges, particularly on their eastern flanks. The localization was extreme: 7% of the total area contributed about 90% of the form stress. Lengths of streamlines were stretched around steady standing meanders. Seven major meanders were found at large topographic barriers along the ACC, with cyclonic meander collocated with the peaks of the topographic barriers. Eddies were found to lengthen the streamlines mostly on the eastern flanks of the meridional ridges, where the eddy transport was southward. Poleward eddy transport on the eastern flanks of meridional ridges is thus highlighted in the ACC dynamics in transferring eastward zonal momentum downward and in adjusting to wind changes by stretching streamlines.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-17-0072.1
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000412116100005&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1175/JPO-D-17-0072.1
  • ISSN : 0022-3670
  • eISSN : 1520-0485
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000412116100005

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