Southern Ocean warming and its climatic impacts

W Cai, L Gao, Y Luo, X Li, X Zheng, X Zhang, X Cheng… - Science Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southern Ocean has warmed substantially, and up to early 21st century,
Antarctic stratospheric ozone depletion and increasing atmospheric CO 2 have conspired to …

Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century

Y Dai, S Yang, D Zhao, C Hu, W Xu, DM Anderson, Y Li… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Phytoplankton blooms in coastal oceans can be beneficial to coastal fisheries production
and ecosystem function, but can also cause major environmental problems,—yet detailed …

Closing the loops on Southern Ocean dynamics: From the circumpolar current to ice shelves and from bottom mixing to surface waves

LG Bennetts, CJ Shakespeare… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A holistic review is given of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, in the context of the crucial
role it plays in the global climate and the profound changes it is experiencing. The review …

Recent acceleration in global ocean heat accumulation by mode and intermediate waters

Z Li, MH England, S Groeskamp - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The ocean absorbs> 90% of anthropogenic heat in the Earth system, moderating global
atmospheric warming. However, it remains unclear how this heat uptake is distributed by …

Surface warming–induced global acceleration of upper ocean currents

Q Peng, SP Xie, D Wang, RX Huang, G Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
How the ocean circulation changes in a warming climate is an important but poorly
understood problem. Using a global ocean model, we decompose the problem into distinct …

Drivers of ocean warming in the western boundary currents of the Southern Hemisphere

J Li, M Roughan, C Kerry - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Western boundary currents (WBCs) of the Southern Hemisphere transport heat poleward
and are regions of rapid ocean warming. However, the mechanisms responsible for the …

Hidden heatwaves and severe coral bleaching linked to mesoscale eddies and thermocline dynamics

ASJ Wyatt, JJ Leichter, L Washburn, L Kui… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The severity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) that are increasingly impacting ocean
ecosystems, including vulnerable coral reefs, has primarily been assessed using remotely …

Long-term evolution of ocean eddy activity in a warming world

N Beech, T Rackow, T Semmler, S Danilov… - Nature climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Mesoscale ocean eddies, an important element of the climate system, impact ocean
circulation, heat uptake, gas exchange, carbon sequestration and nutrient transport. Much of …

Widespread changes in Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms linked to climate drivers

SJ Thomalla, SA Nicholson, TJ Ryan-Keogh… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is expected to elicit widespread alterations to nutrient and light supply,
which interact to influence phytoplankton growth and their seasonal cycles. Using 25 years …

Stochastic‐deep learning parameterization of ocean momentum forcing

AP Guillaumin, L Zanna - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Coupled climate simulations that span several hundred years cannot be run at a high‐
enough spatial resolution to resolve mesoscale ocean dynamics. Recently, several studies …