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Interannual to multidecadal chaotic ocean variability: large-scale impacts in the Southern Ocean

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Mesoscale ocean turbulence is the best-known expression of Chaotic Intrinsic Variability (CIV), which spontaneously emerges from the unstable ocean circulation. This chaotic behavior can reach the scale of several thousand kilometers and decades, via e.g. spatiotemporal inverse cascade or large-scale baroclinic instability processes. Global ensemble simulations of the eddying ocean/sea-ice system indicate that interannual to multi-decadal CIV has the strongest imprints south of about 30°S, where it competes with (and in certain regions exceeds) the atmospherically-forced variability (AFV). This presentation summarizes various results about the low-frequency, large-scale impacts of AFV and CIV on climate-relevant oceanic indices in the Southern Ocean (SO), such as heat content, volume and heat transports, sea level rise, and air-sea CO2 fluxes. These results question the attribution to atmospheric drivers of observed fluctuations in the SO, their predictability, and their potential influence in coupled climate simulations.

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Océanographie
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hal-04550324 , version 1 (17-04-2024)

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Thierry Penduff. Interannual to multidecadal chaotic ocean variability: large-scale impacts in the Southern Ocean. 13th International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Feb 2022, Online, New Zealand. ⟨hal-04550324⟩
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