| Autor: |
Fei Shi, Yiyong Luo, Renhao Wu, Qinghua Yang, Ruiyi Chen, Chuanyin Wang, Yichen Lin, Dake Chen, Guihua Wang, Xuhua Cheng, Yinghui He, Josué Martínez-Moreno, Andrew Hogg |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| DOI: |
10.22541/essoar.167048300.05862577/v1 |
| Popis: |
Mesoscale eddies play an important role in both momentum and heat balances in the Southern Ocean. Previous studies have documented an increasing intensity of the Southern Ocean eddy field during recent decades; however, it is still unclear whether the mesoscale eddies with different lifetimes have different temporal variations. Using satellite altimeter observations from 1993 to 2020, we find that the increasing trend in the intensity of eddies is dominated by long-lived eddies (with lifetimes ≥ 90 days), whose amplitude has increased at a rate of ~2.8% per decade; the increase is concentrated downstream of topography. In contrast, short-lived eddies (with lifetimes < 90 days) do not appear to have a significant trend in their amplitudes since the early 1990s. An energy conversion analysis indicates that the increased baroclinic instabilities of the mean flows associated with topography are responsible for the amplitude increase of the long-lived eddies. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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