Beatriz Pe ña -Molino, Terry M. Joyce and John M. Toole AMOC Meeting, Miami, June 7, 2010
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Recent changes in the circulation and water mass structure of the Deep Western Boundary Current southeast of Cape Cod
Beatriz Peña-Molino, Terry M. Joyce and John M. Toole
AMOC Meeting,Miami, June 7, 2010
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Dense water formation
In Stommel’s classical theory for the abyssal circulation dense water is exported southward along the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC).
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(Talley and McCartney, 1982)
The distribution of Potential Vorticity suggests the LSW spreads southward mostly along the
western boundary
z
fPPV
Planetary Potential Vorticity
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Without dense water formation there is no DWBC
(Gerdes and Koberle, 1995)
reduced forcing strong forcing
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The Line W Program: monitoring the North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current
http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/linew/about/index.htm
W3
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(Toole et al, accepted in Deep-Sea Research)
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Cross-stream(v>0)
Downstream (u>0)
In the rotated coordinate system, downstream velocities are normal to array (along-isobath
direction)
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Integrated KE wavelet amplitude for the 15-60day at the bottom
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The combined effect of rings and meanders reduces the southwestward flow
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Leading joint-EOF (ring/meanders excluded)
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The leading mode EOF of (normalized) PPV at W3
Upward migration of the PPV MINIMUM (anomaly).
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(Yashayaev, 2007)
Changes at Line W follow changes in the Labrador Sea (6-8 years later)
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Leading joint-EOF (ring/meanders excluded)
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dLSW ISOW DSOW
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DSOW dominated
dLSW dominated
The flow reorganizes around the upper and bottom velocity cores.
The Gulf Stream axis move north.
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In a few words…
The PPV distribution along the North Atlantic DWBC suggests that the export of recently ventilated dLSW and DSOW have opposite phase.
Enhanced DWBC transports are associated with low (lower than the mean) PPV in the uLSW and DSOW depth ranges.
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(Bower et al, 2009)
Floats vs. Eulerian view:
The export of LSW is an advective-diffusive process. The diffusive part pulls the water away from the boundary.
The LSW core deepens as we move away from the Labrador Sea
The LSW exported southward changes density (depth) from year to year.
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GS-PC2
Line W-PC1
The abrupt change of the Gulf Stream is captured by the second mode EOF of the Gulf Stream position
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Leading EOF of the surface geostrophic velocity correspond to domain-wide shifts in the latitude of the Gulf Stream
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Filtering rings and meanders
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A ring/meander index based on temperature and velocity anomaly extrema
0.1 = 1oC * 10cm/s change