Freshwater transport in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system: a passive ocean
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Freshwater transport in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system: a passive ocean |h [Elektronische Daten] |c [David Ferreira, John Marshall] |
| 520 | 3 | |a Conservation of water demands that meridional ocean and atmosphere freshwater transports (FWT) are of equal magnitude but opposite in direction. This suggests that the atmospheric FWT and its associated latent heat (LH) transport could be thought of as a "coupled ocean/atmosphere mode.” But what is the true nature of this coupling? Is the ocean passive or active? Here, we analyze a series of simulations with a coupled ocean-atmosphere-sea ice model employing highly idealized geometries but with markedly different coupled climates and patterns of ocean circulation. Exploiting streamfunctions in specific humidity coordinates for the atmosphere and salt coordinates for the ocean to represent FWT in their respective medium, we find that atmospheric FWT/LH transport is essentially independent of the ocean state. Ocean circulation and salinity distribution adjust to achieve a return freshwater pathway demanded of them by the atmosphere. So, although ocean and atmosphere FWTs are indeed coupled by mass conservation, the ocean is a passive component acting as a reservoir of freshwater. | |
| 540 | |a Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 | ||
| 690 | 7 | |a Freshwater transport |2 nationallicence | |
| 690 | 7 | |a Latent heat transport |2 nationallicence | |
| 690 | 7 | |a Hydrological cycle |2 nationallicence | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Ferreira |D David |u Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, PO Box 243, RG6 6BB, Reading, UK |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Marshall |D John |u Department of Earth Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA |4 aut | |
| 773 | 0 | |t Ocean Dynamics |d Springer Berlin Heidelberg |g 65/7(2015-07-01), 1029-1036 |x 1616-7341 |q 65:7<1029 |1 2015 |2 65 |o 10236 | |
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| 950 | |B NATIONALLICENCE |P 700 |E 1- |a Ferreira |D David |u Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, PO Box 243, RG6 6BB, Reading, UK |4 aut | ||
| 950 | |B NATIONALLICENCE |P 700 |E 1- |a Marshall |D John |u Department of Earth Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA |4 aut | ||
| 950 | |B NATIONALLICENCE |P 773 |E 0- |t Ocean Dynamics |d Springer Berlin Heidelberg |g 65/7(2015-07-01), 1029-1036 |x 1616-7341 |q 65:7<1029 |1 2015 |2 65 |o 10236 | ||