Cessation of deep convection in the open Southern Ocean under anthropogenic climate change

Casimir de Lavergne (), Jaime B. Palter, Eric D. Galbraith, Raffaele Bernardello and Irina Marinov
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Casimir de Lavergne: Burnside Hall, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9, Canada
Jaime B. Palter: Burnside Hall, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9, Canada
Eric D. Galbraith: McGill University, 3450 University Street Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8, Canada
Raffaele Bernardello: Hayden Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 240 S. 33rd Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6316, USA
Irina Marinov: Hayden Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 240 S. 33rd Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6316, USA

Nature Climate Change, 2014, vol. 4, issue 4, 278-282

Abstract: The Southern Ocean is a major site of open-ocean deep convection. Using observational data and model simulations, it is found that surface waters have freshened since the 1950s and deep convection has weakened, and could cease, as a result of the freshening. This has implications for bottom-water formation, ocean heat and carbon storage.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2132

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