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The processes maintaining stratification in the oceanic middepth (between approximately 1000 and 3000 m) are explored using an eddy-resolving general circulation model composed of a two-hemisphere, semienclosed basin with a zonal reentrant channel in the southernmost eighth of the domain. The middepth region lies below the wind-driven main thermocline but above the diffusively driven abyssal ocean. Here, it is argued that middepth stratification is determined primarily in the model’s Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Competition between mean and eddy overturning in the channel leads to steeper isotherms and thus deeper stratification throughout the basin than would exist without the channel. Isotherms that outcrop only in the channel are nearly horizontal in the semienclosed portion of the domain, whereas isotherms that also outcrop in the Northern Hemisphere deviate from horizontal and are accompanied by geostrophically balanced meridional transport. A northern source of deep water (water with temperatures in the range of those in the channel) leads to the formation of a thick middepth thermostad. Changes in wind forcing over the channel influence the stratification throughout the domain. Since the middepth stratification is controlled by adiabatic dynamics in the channel, it becomes independent of the interior diffusivity κ as κ → 0. The meridional overturning circulation (MOC), as diagnosed by the mean meridional volume transport, also shows a tendency to become independent of κ as κ → 0, whereas the MOC diagnosed by water mass transport shows a continuing dependence on κ as κ → 0. A nonlocal scaling for MOC is developed that relates the strength of the northern MOC to the depth of isotherms in the southern channel. The results of this paper compare favorably to observations of large-scale neutral density in the World Ocean.
Journal of Physical Oceanography – American Meteorological Society
Published: Oct 29, 2009
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