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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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UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 

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 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

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    SORBONNE UNIVERSITE FR (PARIS) coordinator 1˙731˙247.00
2    UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS 6 FR (PARIS) coordinator 0.00
3    INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER 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

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
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 Sallée, Alexander D. Fraser, Rob A. Massom, Phillip Reid, William Hobbs, Christophe Guinet, Robert Harcourt, Clive McMahon, Matthieu Authier, Frédéric 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 Sallée, Alexander D. Fraser, Robert A. Massom, Phillip Reid, Michael Sumner, Christophe Guinet, Robert Harcourt, Clive McMahon, Frédéric 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 Sallée, Sunke Schmidtko, Fabien Roquet, Jean-Benoît 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 Sallée, J.B., Mazloff, M., Meredith, M., Hughes, C. W., Rintoul, S., Gomez, R., Metzl, N., Lo Monaco, C., Schmidtko, S., Mata, M.M., Wåhlin, 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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