Chapter Thirteen

Southern Ocean

Data files supplied for Chapter 13 exercises

  • Southern_sections: →

    • READ_ME_RE_SOUTHERN_SECTIONS.txt

  • WOA98_heavideci_basin_global_gridded_data: →

    • WOA98_heavydeci_Antarctic.joa

  • WOA_decimated_basin_global_gridded_data: →

    • WOA05_decimated_Southern.joa

  • WOA_basin_global_gridded_data: →

    • WOA05_Southern.joa

Download: Chapter 13 Data Files

Goals

  • Understand the water masses, circulation and other aspects of descriptive physical oceanography of the Southern Ocean & its marginal seas

To accomplish this, one will:

  • Learn to extract data subsets from map plots

  • Learn how to use advanced JOA tools for working with basin-scale data sets

Tools

  • JOA Section Editor

  • Interpolations Options dialog box

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Fig 13i-01 Arctic and Northern Polar sections map

DPO Chapter 13 Sections

DPO JOA examples are available for the following emphasized sections:

13.1

Definition of the Southern Ocean

13.2

Forcing

13.3

Southern Ocean fronts and zones

13.3.1

Fronts

13.3.2

Zones

13.4

Southern Ocean circulation and transports

13.4.1

Antarctic Circumpolar Current

13.4.2

Weddell and Ross Sea gyres

13.4.3

Mid-depth to bottom circulation

13.5

Southern Ocean water masses

13.5.1

Surface Waters

13.5.1.1

Subantarctic Surface Water and Subantarctic Mode Water

13.5.1.2

Antarctic Surface Water

13.5.1.3

Continental Shelf Water

13.5.2

Antarctic Intermediate Water

13.5.3

Circumpolar Deep Water

13.5.4

Antarctic Bottom Water

13.5.5

Overturning budgets

13.6

Eddies in the Southern Ocean

13.7

Sea ice in the Southern Ocean

13.7.1

Sea ice cover

13.7.2

Sea ice motion

13.8

Climate variability in the Southern Ocean