Warming in the Agulhas Current system since the 1980's

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作者
Rouault, Mathieu [1 ]
Penven, Pierrick [3 ]
Pohl, Benjamin [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cape Town, Inst Marine Res, Dept Oceanog, ZA-7701 Cape Town, South Africa
[2] Univ Bourgogne, CNRS, Ctr Rech Climatol, F-21000 Dijon, France
[3] Univ Bretagne Occidentale, IFREMER, CNRS, Lab Phys Oceans,IRD,UMR6523, F-29280 Plouzane, France
关键词
ATLANTIC OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE; CLIMATE; VARIABILITY; SURFACE; REANALYSIS; LEAKAGE; MODEL;
D O I
10.1029/2009GL037987
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Since the 1980's, the sea surface temperature of the Agulhas Current system has increased significantly. The warming is due to an augmentation of its transport in response to an increase in wind stress curl in the South Indian Ocean at relevant latitudes. This causes an increase in the fluxes of salt and heat into the Atlantic Ocean and in the transfer of energy from the ocean to the atmosphere. Therefore, the changes we are witnessing in the region could have far reaching consequences on top of the regional impacts on ecosystem and climate. The increase in wind stress curl is consistent with a poleward shift of westerly wind in the Southern Hemisphere reported by others. Citation: Rouault, M., P. Penven, and B. Pohl (2009), Warming in the Agulhas Current system since the 1980's, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L12602, doi: 10.1029/2009GL037987.
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