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Interaction of SST Modes in the North Atlantic Ocean

Published:2006-03-01 Issue:3 Volume:36 Page:286-299
ISSN:1520-0485
Container-title:Journal of Physical Oceanography
language:en
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Author:

Dijkstra Henk A.¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, and Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Abstract

Abstract The spectral origin of the recently discovered multidecadal modes (MMs) and centennial modes (CMs) is explained. These modes appear in the linear stability analysis of thermohaline-driven flows in a single-hemispheric ocean basin. It is shown that both classes of modes arise through interaction of so-called sea surface temperature (SST) modes. These SST modes are damped and nonoscillatory for the unforced (motionless) flow. They become oscillatory under small thermal forcing through mode merging that is induced by the meridional overturning circulation. The type of merger responsible for each class of modes explains many features—for example, why CMs can be found in two-dimensional models whereas MMs cannot—of the patterns of the modes at realistic forcing strength.

Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Subject

Oceanography

Link

http://journals.ametsoc.org/jpo/article-pdf/36/3/286/4479919/jpo2851_1.pdf

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