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The ocean circulation is driven by a combination of winds and surface buoyancy fluxes. We run a number of experiments with varied surface forcings and look at the spatial variations in ocean circulation on short and long time-scales.
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Heat flux variations in flux-forced simulation #32

Open dhruvbhagtani opened 2 years ago

dhruvbhagtani commented 2 years ago

We conduct a series of simulations with varied heat fluxes to evaluate the corresponding changes in ocean circulation.

dhruvbhagtani commented 2 years ago

A list of all the diagnostics can be found here: https://github.com/dhruvbhagtani/varying-surface-forcing/blob/main/Flux_vary_heat/Diagnostics.ipynb

dhruvbhagtani commented 2 years ago

The KE (and PE too) shows a positive trend with the addition of heat fluxes in the ocean, contradicting a popular belief that ocean circulation can only occur by a net input of energy from an external source.

PS: Please correct me if my above statement is wrong.

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dhruvbhagtani commented 2 years ago

Finally, we have the ocean circulation in terms of the gyre and overturning. In general, both the gyres and overturning circulation show a positive trend. Screen Shot 2022-01-07 at 11 31 05 am

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