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Thermohaline circulation

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Alexis Berne, Josué Etienne Gehring, Nikola Besic, Etienne Gabriel Henri Vignon, Nicolas Jean François Jullien

On 28 February 2018, 57mm of precipitation associated with a warm conveyor belt (WCB) fell within 21 h over South Korea. To investigate how the large-scale circulation influenced the microphysics of this intense precipitation event, we used radar measureme ...

2020

Snapshots of mean ocean temperature over the last 700,000 yr using noble gases in the EPICA Dome C ice core

Adrien Michel

Together with the latent heat stored in glacial ice sheets the ocean heat uptake carries the lion’s share of glacial/interglacial changes in the planetary heat content but little direct information on the global mean ocean temperature (MOT) is available to ...

2020

Meridional and vertical variations of the water vapour isotopic composition in the marine boundary layer over the Atlantic and Southern Ocean

Julia Schmale, Sebastian Johannes Heinz-Josef Landwehr

Stable water isotopologues (SWIs) are useful tracers of moist diabatic processes in the atmospheric water cycle. They provide a framework to analyse moist processes on a range of timescales from large-scale moisture transport to cloud formation, precipitat ...

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Horizontal transport under wind-induced resonance in stratified waterbodies

Alfred Johny Wüest, Hugo Nicolás Ulloa Sánchez, Serban George Constantinescu, Kyoung Sik Chang

Periodic winds acting on a stratified waterbody can amplify normal modes of motion and enhance the basin-scale circulation via resonance. Here, we use idealized largeeddy simulations to investigate the flow features and quantify the horizontal transport in ...

2020

Deep-water coastal upwelling events during wintertime in a large lake (Lake Geneva)

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Andrea Cimatoribus, Rafael Sebastian Reiss

Convective winter cooling is an important process in the annual cycle of a lake ecosystem, because it brings oxygen to the deeper layers. However, in deep lakes, convective processes are often not strong enough to extend the mixing down to the deepest laye ...

2019

Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Production and Export by Meridional Overturning in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic

Bieito Fernandez Castro

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is produced in the surface and exported towards the deep ocean, adding similar to 2 PgC/year to the global carbon export. Due to its central role in the Meridional Overturning Circulation, the eastern subpolar North Atlantic ...

2019

Global warming affects nutrient upwelling in deep lakes

Alfred Johny Wüest, Robert Vincent Schwefel

Measures to reduce lake phosphorus concentrations have been encouragingly successful in many parts of the world. After significant eutrophication in the twentieth century, nutrient concentrations have declined in many natural settings. In addition to these ...

2019

Thermohaline Flow in Seawater Intrusion in Shallow Coastal Aquifers

David Andrew Barry, Chenming Zhang

Temperature and salinity, with largely different diffusivities, make a perfect couple that drives thermohaline flow (double diffusive convection where heat and salt are the two main concerned properties) in porous media wherever their gradients co-exist. S ...

2018

Distinctive features of horizontal and vertical velocity profiles in turbidity and saline density currents

Giovanni De Cesare, Shun Nomura, Sara Venuleo, Jumpei Hitomi

The flow field of turbidity current and saline density current in lock-gate flume is measured by the ultra-sound Doppler velocity profiler. The horizontal and vertical velocity and their fluctuations are discussed. ...

2018

Differential cooling and near-shore dynamics in a large lake (Lake Geneva)

Ulrich Lemmin, Rafael Sebastian Reiss

Density currents generated by differential cooling in lakes with shallow shore regions or side basins are associated with increased vertical mixing, deep water renewal and cross-shore transport of nutrients and other substances. Previous field experiments ...

2018

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