Search Results - "Schwarzkopf, F. U."
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The response of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to recent climate change
Published in Nature geoscience (01-12-2008)“…Observations show a significant intensification of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies, the prevailing winds between the latitudes of 30 ∘ and 60 ∘ S, over the…”
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Increase in Agulhas leakage due to poleward shift of Southern Hemisphere westerlies
Published in Nature (London) (26-11-2009)“…The transport of warm and salty Indian Ocean waters into the Atlantic Ocean-the Agulhas leakage-has a crucial role in the global oceanic circulation and thus…”
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Decadal changes in Atlantic overturning due to the excessive 1990s Labrador Sea convection
Published in Nature communications (02-08-2023)“…Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) represent a crucial component of Northern Hemisphere climate variability. In modelling…”
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Submesoscale Impacts on Mesoscale Agulhas Dynamics
Published in Journal of advances in modeling earth systems (01-08-2019)“…Mesoscale dynamics of the Agulhas Current system determine the exchange between the Indian and Atlantic oceans, thereby influencing the global overturning…”
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Biological and physical influences on marine snowfall at the equator
Published in Nature geoscience (01-11-2017)“…High primary productivity in the equatorial Atlantic and Pacific oceans is one of the key features of tropical ocean biogeochemistry and fuels a substantial…”
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Cold vs. warm water route – sources for the upper limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation revisited in a high-resolution ocean model
Published in Ocean science (09-05-2019)“…The northward flow of the upper limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is fed by waters entering the South Atlantic from the Indian…”
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Regional imprints of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the eddy-rich ocean model VIKING20X
Published in Ocean science (02-09-2021)“…A hierarchy of global 1/4∘ (ORCA025) and Atlantic Ocean 1/20∘ nested (VIKING20X) ocean–sea-ice models is described. It is shown that the eddy-rich…”
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Characteristics and robustness of Agulhas leakage estimates: an inter-comparison study of Lagrangian methods
Published in Ocean science (16-08-2021)“…The inflow of relatively warm and salty water from the Indian Ocean into the South Atlantic via Agulhas leakage is important for the global overturning…”
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Dependency of simulated tropical Atlantic current variability on the wind forcing
Published in Ocean science (15-03-2024)“…The upper wind-driven circulation in the tropical Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in the basin-wide distribution of water mass properties and affects the…”
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The Flexible Ocean and Climate Infrastructure version 1 (FOCI1): mean state and variability
Published in Geoscientific Model Development (03-06-2020)“…A new Earth system model, the Flexible Ocean and Climate Infrastructure (FOCI), is introduced. A first version of FOCI consists of a global high-top atmosphere…”
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The INALT family – a set of high-resolution nests for the Agulhas Current system within global NEMO ocean/sea-ice configurations
Published in Geoscientific Model Development (29-07-2019)“…The Agulhas Current, the western boundary current of the South Indian Ocean, has been shown to play an important role in the connectivity between the Indian…”
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Analysis of the position and strength of westerlies and trades with implications for Agulhas leakage and South Benguela upwelling
Published in Earth system dynamics (05-12-2019)“…The westerlies and trade winds over the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean are important drivers of the regional oceanography around southern Africa, including…”
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