Diagnosing Eddy Mixing in the Southern Ocean from SOSE Ryan Abernathey With John Marshall, Matt Mazzloff and Emily Shuckburgh.

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Diagnosing Eddy Mixing in the Southern Ocean from SOSE Ryan Abernathey With John Marshall, Matt Mazzloff and Emily Shuckburgh

The MOC Contributes to poleward heat transport Supplies surface biology with nutrients Determines rate of oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO2 Fundamental role in climate system! Lumpkin & Speer (2007)

Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning Speer Et Al. (2000) via Olbers and Visbeck (2005) Eddy Transport

Unresolved Mixing Processes in Coarse Ocean Models Eddy resolving “climate models” might still be far away. Parameterization of mesoscale eddy transfer still important!

Simulate the advection of a passive tracer by the SOSE velocity fields Determine the “equivalent length” of a streched contour Our Method streched contoursminimum possible contour length

Comparison with Marshall et al. (2006) Horizontal effective diffusivity at 100 m depth We are limited to the 1/6 degree grid of SOSE: numerical diffusion sets a lower bound on k. Too large k blurs fine-scale structure. M06 investigated much finer grids. Our convergence with their results is encouraging. Chose to analyze k = 100 case.

Isopycnal Projection In the absence of diabaic processes (the ocean interior), water masses stay on isopycnal surfaces. Calculated neutral density (Jackett & McDougal 1997). Interpolated tracer onto 35 neutral surfaces calculated from instantaneous T & S. These isopycnal tracer sheets were used for effective diffusivity calculation. depth longitude latitude

Results

Hovmüller Diagram of Surface Height Anomaly in SOSE Along a mean streamline centered around 53 S. Dotted line is 2 cm/s westward. Mean flow ~ 16 cm/2. Eddies propagating upstream. Along 32S in Indian Ocean. Eddies/waves propagating west. Steering Level Somewhere Between!

Ertel / Isopycnal PV Isopycnal layer thickness Averaged along streamlines and isopycnals. Pink line: 5 cm/s streamwise flow (ACC) Rhines & Young (1983): tracer (PV) homogenized inside closed streamlines (Note: PV is everywhere negative in southern hemisphere!)

Does Critical Layer Mixing Homogenize PV? On neutral surfaces 28.1, 28.0 (NADW) 27.9, 27.8, 27.6 (UCDW) Strong mixing on the edge of a sharp PV gradient: reminiscent of stratospheric surf zone. Advection of PV by residual flow can balance stirring: implies nonzero residual flow where both stirring and gradient are strong.

New Results: Sectors A B C D E F

Average of Sectors vs. Global

Future Work Explore using Keff in parameterizing eddy fluxes. Better than simple Gent-McWilliams? Examine the role of critical layer effects vs. topographic forcing. What really determines the spatial pattern of Keff? Do calculation in the global cs510 model!

Iudicone et al. 2008

How to quantify advective enhancement of diffusion? Nakamura (1996) Area contained within tracer contour Q: Modified Lagrangian Mean (MLM): Take MLM of tracer equation… Looks sort of like diffusion. “Equivalent length” of tracer contour Q (following Alan Plumb’s stratosphere notes)