Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored Eddy
The air-sea impact of a warm cored eddy ejected from the Agulhas Retroflection region south of Africa was assessed through both ocean and atmospheric profiling measurements during the austral summer. The presence of the eddy causes dramatic atmospheric boundary layer deepening, exceeding what was me...
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| description | The air-sea impact of a warm cored eddy ejected from the Agulhas Retroflection region south of Africa was assessed through both ocean and atmospheric profiling measurements during the austral summer. The presence of the eddy causes dramatic atmospheric boundary layer deepening, exceeding what was measured previously over such a feature in the region. This deepening seems mainly due to the turbulent heat flux anomaly above the warm eddy inducing extensive deep and persistent changes in the atmospheric boundary layer thermodynamics. The loss of heat by turbulent processes suggests that this kind of oceanic feature is an important and persistent source of heat for the atmosphere. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2d28b1f01bb34a9b921d3740d36f1dce2025-08-20T02:24:14ZengWileyAdvances in Meteorology1687-93091687-93172016-01-01201610.1155/2016/36596573659657Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored EddyC. Messager0S. Swart1Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, CNRS, UMR 6523, BP 70, 29280 Plouzané Cedex, FranceSouthern Ocean Carbon & Climate Observatory, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, 15 Lower Hope Street, Rosebank 7700, South AfricaThe air-sea impact of a warm cored eddy ejected from the Agulhas Retroflection region south of Africa was assessed through both ocean and atmospheric profiling measurements during the austral summer. The presence of the eddy causes dramatic atmospheric boundary layer deepening, exceeding what was measured previously over such a feature in the region. This deepening seems mainly due to the turbulent heat flux anomaly above the warm eddy inducing extensive deep and persistent changes in the atmospheric boundary layer thermodynamics. The loss of heat by turbulent processes suggests that this kind of oceanic feature is an important and persistent source of heat for the atmosphere.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3659657 |
| spellingShingle | C. Messager S. Swart Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored Eddy Advances in Meteorology |
| title | Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored Eddy |
| title_full | Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored Eddy |
| title_fullStr | Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored Eddy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored Eddy |
| title_short | Significant Atmospheric Boundary Layer Change Observed above an Agulhas Current Warm Cored Eddy |
| title_sort | significant atmospheric boundary layer change observed above an agulhas current warm cored eddy |
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