Ocean Heat Transport and Its Projected Change in CanESM2

Mechanisms of the Southern Ocean 1 meridional heat transport response to 2 projected wind changes

Mechanisms Maintaining Southern Ocean Meridional Heat Transport under Projected Wind Forcing

Meridional heat transport (MHT) in the Southern Ocean (SO) and its components are analyzed with two eddy-permitting climate models. The two models present a consistent picture of the MHT response to projected twenty-first-century changes in SO winds. In agreement with a recent analysis based on an ocean data synthesis product, much of the MHT in the SO is found to be due to the time-mean fields...

What processes drive the ocean heat transport?

Please cite this article in press as: Ferrari, R j.ocemod.2011.02.013 The ocean contributes to regulating the Earth’s climate through its ability to transport heat from the equator to the poles. In this study we use long simulations of an ocean model to investigate whether the heat transport is carried primarily by wind-driven gyres or whether it is dominated by deep circulations associated wit...

Bryan: Poleward Heat Transport by the Ocean

Bryden, H.L., and M.M. Hall, Heat transport by currents across 25øN latitude in the Atlantic Ocean. Science, 207, 884-$86, 1980. Bunker, A., Computations of surface energy flux and annual air-sea interaction cycles of the North Atlantic Ocean, Mon. Weather Rev., 104, 1122-1140, 1976. Campbell, G.G., Energy transport within the earth's atmosphere-ocean system from a climate point of view, Ph.D. ...

The Energetics of Ocean Heat Transport

A number of recent papers have argued that the mechanical energy budget of the ocean places constraints on how the thermohaline circulation is driven. These papers have been used to argue that climate models, which do not specifically account for the energy of mixing, potentially miss a very important feedback on climate change. This paper reexamines the question of what energetic arguments can...