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Agulhas Leakage in the CCSM4
Wilbert Weijer (LANL, Los Alamos)
Erik van Sebille (UNSW, Sydney)
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Agulhas Leakage
Exchange of water between South Indian and Atlantic Oceans
Takes part in • Supergyre • Meridional Overturning Circulation
Beal et al. (2011)
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Agulhas Leakage
Main mode of exchange • Agulhas Rings • Instability of Agulhas Retroflection • ~ 6 per year • Filled with warm and salty water
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Agulhas Leakage: Impact Gordon (1985)
• “Such a warm water link between the Atlantic and Indian oceans would strongly influence global climate patterns”
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Agulhas Leakage: Impact Gordon (1985)
• “Such a warm water link between the Atlantic and Indian oceans would strongly influence global climate patterns”
Weijer et al. (1999, 2001, 2002) • Heat and salt injection through Agulhas Leakage
— Strengthens MOC — Stabilizes MOC
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Agulhas Leakage: Impact Gordon (1985)
• “Such a warm water link between the Atlantic and Indian oceans would strongly influence global climate patterns”
Weijer et al. (1999, 2001, 2002) • Heat and salt injection through Agulhas Leakage
— Strengthens MOC — Stabilizes MOC
Biastoch et al. (2008) • High-resolution model of Agulhas region, nested in global model • “Dynamical signals from Agulhas region contribute MOC signal of same order of
magnitude as those arising in the north”
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Agulhas Leakage: Implications
No conclusive proof yet of AL ↔ MOC link • Models too simplistic • More realistic models
— Ocean-only, no atmospheric feedbacks — Too short integration
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Agulhas Leakage: Implications
No conclusive proof yet of AL ↔ MOC link • Models too simplistic • More realistic models
— Ocean-only, no atmospheric feedbacks — Too short integration
Our best hope: Coupled climate models • Coupled ocean-atmosphere • Long integrations
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Agulhas Leakage: Implications
No conclusive proof yet of AL ↔ MOC link • Models too simplistic • More realistic models
— Ocean-only, no atmospheric feedbacks — Too short integration
Our best hope: Coupled climate models • Coupled ocean-atmosphere • Long integrations
But: Low-res models do not represent Agulhas Leakage well • CCSM4 overestimates Agulhas Leakage by factor 3 (Weijer et al. 2012)
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Research Goal Can we find evidence for Agulhas Leakage ↔ MOC link in CCSM4?
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Does Agulhas Leakage influence MOC in CCSM4?
1850 pre-industrial control • Final 500 yr of 1300 yr integration
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Does Agulhas Leakage influence MOC in CCSM4?
1850 pre-industrial control • Final 500 yr of 1300 yr integration
Agulhas Leakage: Lagrangian analysis • Monthly 3D velocity fields • Release 2M+ numerical floats in Agulhas Current • Diagnose floats crossing GoodHope line
GoodHope line
Agulhas Current: Release
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Does Agulhas Leakage influence MOC in CCSM4?
1850 pre-industrial control • Final 500 yr of 1300 yr integration
Agulhas Leakage: Lagrangian analysis • Monthly 3D velocity fields • Release 2M+ numerical floats in Agulhas Current • Diagnose floats crossing GoodHope line • Diagnose associated salt flux FS
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Mechanisms
Wave adjustment • Kelvin/Rossby waves
Weijer et al. (2002)
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Mechanisms
Wave adjustment • Kelvin/Rossby waves
Advective adjustment
Weijer et al. (2002)
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Agulhas Leakage vs. MOC
Coherence
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Agulhas Leakage vs. MOC
Coherence: Multidecadal (50-100 yr) • FS is marginally coherent with MOC
T > 50 yr
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Agulhas Leakage vs. MOC
Coherence: Multidecadal (50-100 yr) • FS is marginally coherent with MOC • Very small lag/lead, southward propagation, so causality…?
FS leads MOC FS lags MOC
FS leads MOC FS lags MOC
Coherence
Phase lag
Time lag
Coherence between FS and MOC
averaged for 50 < T < 100 yr
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Agulhas Leakage vs. MOC
Coherence: Decadal (10-50 yr) • FS not coherent with MOC, except at 25 yr
10 < T < 50 yr
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Agulhas Leakage vs. MOC
Coherence: Decadal (10-50 yr) • FS not coherent with MOC, except at 25 yr • At 25 yr, FS leads MOC
FS lags MOC
FS lags MOC
Coherence between FS and MOC
averaged for 20 < T < 33 yr
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Signal Propagation: Lagged Correlation
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Signal Propagation: Lagged Correlation
0-5 yr lag
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Signal Propagation: Lagged Correlation
30-40 yr lag
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Signal Propagation: Lagged Correlation
40-50 yr lag
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Signal Propagation: Lagrangian Floats
South Caribbean
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Signal Propagation: Lagrangian Floats
Mean arrival time: 34 yr
South Caribbean
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Conclusions
No discernible impact of Agulhas Leakage variability on MOC • Study is inconclusive: salinity variability too weak
Advective pathway is present
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CCSM4: Analyses
1850 Pre-industrial control • Spun up from rest • Fixed 1850 conditions • Last 500 yr of 1300 yr simulation
20th century runs • Initialized at 1850 • Time-varying forcing
— Greenhouse gases — Solar output — …
• Last 26 yr of 156 yr simulations • 5 ensemble members
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Agulhas Leakage in CCSM4
20th century runs
Lagrangian analysis • Monthly 3D velocity fields, 1980-2005 • Release 110,000 numerical floats in Agulhas Current
— How many make it into South Atlantic? — How many make it across 21°S?
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Agulhas Leakage in CCSM4: Mean Transports
Weijer et al. (2012)
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Agulhas Leakage in CCSM4: Mean Transports
Agulhas Current transport
69 Sv
70 Sv (Bryden et al. 2005)
Weijer et al. (2012)
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Agulhas Leakage in CCSM4: Mean Transports
Good Hope line transport
43 Sv
14-17 Sv (Doglioli et al. 2006; van Sebille et al. 2009; Richardson 2007)
Weijer et al. (2012)
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Agulhas Leakage in CCSM4: Mean Transports
21ºS transport
10 ± 1 Sv
10 Sv (Donners and Drijfhout 2004)
4 Sv (Biastoch et al. 2009)
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Agulhas Leakage in CCSM4: Trends
3.6 ± 1.3 Sv/decade
-0.1 ± 0.6 Sv/decade
Weijer et al. (2012)
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Agulhas Leakage in CCSM4: Conclusions Agulhas Current okay
Agulhas Leakage overestimated by factor ~3
75 % recirculates in super-gyre
Why? • Agulhas Retroflection inertial process
• Not captured by low-resolution 1° models
• Instead, leakage takes place in viscous boundary layer
De Ruijter (1982)
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Meridional Coherence of the AMOC
T > 50 yr
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Good Metric of Agulhas Leakage Impact?
X
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CCSM4
Coupler
Ocean Model (Parallel Ocean Program: POP2)
Atmosphere Model (Community Atmosphere Model: CAM4)
Sea Ice Model (Community Ice Code: CICE4)
Land Model (Community Land Model: CLM4)
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Does Agulhas Leakage influence MOC in CCSM4?
Coherence • Salinity in southeastern Atlantic coherent with FS but not with Vag
x
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Joint Response to ENSO: AMOC
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CCSM4
Community Climate System Model, version 4 • Joint NSF/DOE funded project
— National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) — Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
CMIP5: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project • World Climate Research Program (WCRP) • Standard experimental protocol for climate model comparison • Science input into IPCC’s 5th assessment report (AR5; 2013)
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Agulhas Leakage vs. MOC
Coherence: Interannual (1-10 yr) • FS not coherent with MOC • At 4-5 yr, joint response to ENSO
T < 10 yr
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Salinity Bias
∆S = 0.24 psu
σ(S34S) = 0.11 psu
∆S = -0.04 psu
σ(S34S) = 0.02 psu
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Wave Adjustment
Kelvin/Rossby waves
Weijer et al. (2002)
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Wave Adjustment
Kelvin/Rossby waves
Johnson & Marshall (2002) • No cross-equatorial transport of
MOC anomalies • Time scales shorter than decadal • Equatorial Buffer
Weijer et al. (2002)
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Wave Adjustment
Meridional coherence of the AMOC • MOC at 26°N with MOC at 15°N, 15°S, 30°S
T > 50 yr
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Advective Adjustment
Advection of density anomalies
Weijer et al. (2002)