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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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| 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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| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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