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WAPITI SIGNED

Water-mass transformation and Pathways In The Weddell Sea: uncovering the dynamics of a global climate chokepoint from In-situ measurements

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Project "WAPITI" data sheet

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 There are not information about this coordinator. Please contact Fabio for more information, thanks.
Coordinator Country	France [FR]
Project website	http://wapiti-project.com/
Total cost	1˙998˙125 €
EC max contribution	1˙998˙125 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2014-STG
Funding Scheme	ERC-STG
Starting year	2015
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2015-05-01 to 2021-04-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	SORBONNE UNIVERSITE SORBONNE UNIVERSITE Organization address address: 21 RUE DE L'ECOLE DE MEDECINE city: PARIS postcode: 75006 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PARIS)	coordinator	1˙731˙247.00
2	UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 Organization address address: Place Jussieu 4 city: PARIS postcode: 75252 website: www.upmc.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PARIS)	coordinator	0.00
3	INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER Organization address address: 1625 ROUTE DE SAINTE ANNE ZONE INDUSTRIELLE DE LA POINTE DU DIABLE city: PLOUZANE postcode: 29280 website: http://www.ifremer.fr contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	FR (PLOUZANE)	participant	266˙877.00

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Project objective

Deep water formed around the Antarctic continent drives the world ocean circulation. 50-70% of this deep water is formed within only about 10% of the Antarctic circumpolar band: the Weddell Sea. Subtle changes in the circulation of the Weddell Sea can lead to major changes in floating ice-shelves, with critical implications for global sea-level, the production of deep water and the global ocean overturning circulation. Despite these critical climate implications, the Antarctic shelf circulation remains poorly understood.

I propose an ambitious project at the crossroads of experimental and numerical oceanography. By drawing on the strengths of each discipline I will explore the regional water-mass pathways in the Weddell Sea: an unchartered cornerstone for understanding the polar ocean circulation and its links to global climate. A key issue facing climate scientists will be addressed: “What sets the tridimensional water-mass structure and pathways in the Weddell Sea and modulates the flow of deep waters between the Antarctica ice-shelves and the global ocean circulation?”

To address this question I propose to investigate several key aspects of the Weddell Sea system: the dynamical forcing of the Weddell gyre and its response to atmospheric variability; the forcing and the circulation on the continental shelf and its interaction with the gyre; and the time-scale and mixing associated with bottom water sinking along the continental shelf. WAPITI approaches these objectives through a series of innovations, including (i) an ambitious field experiment to investigate the shelf circulation and processes, (ii) a powerful conceptual framework applied for the first time to a realistic eddy-resolving model of the Weddell gyre, and (iii) a novel instrument that will be developed to directly observe the sinking of deep water into the abyssal ocean for the first time. Collectively, the project will contribute a new insight into global climate feedbacks.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2017	Jessica Blunden, Derek S. Arndt State of the Climate in 2016 published pages: Si-S280, ISSN: 0003-0007, DOI: 10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98/8	2019-09-17
2017	Sara Labrousse, Jean-Baptiste SallÃ©e, Alexander D. Fraser, Rob A. Massom, Phillip Reid, William Hobbs, Christophe Guinet, Robert Harcourt, Clive McMahon, Matthieu Authier, FrÃ©dÃ©ric Bailleul, Mark A. Hindell, Jean-Benoit Charrassin Variability in sea ice cover and climate elicit sex specific responses in an Antarctic predator published pages: 43236, ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/srep43236	Scientific Reports 7	2019-09-17
2017	Sara Labrousse, Jean-Baptiste SallÃ©e, Alexander D. Fraser, Robert A. Massom, Phillip Reid, Michael Sumner, Christophe Guinet, Robert Harcourt, Clive McMahon, FrÃ©dÃ©ric Bailleul, Mark A. Hindell, Jean-Benoit Charrassin Under the sea ice: Exploring the relationship between sea ice and the foraging behaviour of southern elephant seals in East Antarctica published pages: 17-40, ISSN: 0079-6611, DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2017.05.014	Progress in Oceanography 156	2019-09-17
2016	Violaine Pellichero, Jean-Baptiste SallÃ©e, Sunke Schmidtko, Fabien Roquet, Jean-BenoÃ®t Charrassin The ocean mixed-layer under Southern Ocean sea-ice: Seasonal cycle and forcing published pages: , ISSN: 2169-9275, DOI: 10.1002/2016JC011970	Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans	2019-09-17
2016	SallÃ©e, J.B., Mazloff, M., Meredith, M., Hughes, C. W., Rintoul, S., Gomez, R., Metzl, N., Lo Monaco, C., Schmidtko, S., Mata, M.M., WÃ¥hlin, A., Swart, S, Williams, M.J.M., Naveria-Garabata, A.C., and Monteiro, P. STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 (chapter 6, Southern Ocean) published pages: 166-168, ISSN: , DOI: 10.1175/2016BAMSStateoftheClimate.1	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol 97, No 8	2019-09-17

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