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Derkani, Marzieh H., Alberello, Alberto 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7957-4012, Nelli, Filippo, Bennetts, Luke G., Hessner, Katrin G., Machutchon, Keith, Reichert, Konny, Aouf, Lotfi, Khan, Salman and Toffoli, Alessandro
(2021)
Wind, waves, and surface currents in the Southern Ocean: Observations from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition.
Earth System Science Data, 13 (3).
pp. 1189-1209.
ISSN 1866-3508
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Abstract
The Southern Ocean has a profound impact on the Earth's climate system. Its strong winds, intense currents, and fierce waves are critical components of the air–sea interface and contribute to absorbing, storing, and releasing heat, moisture, gases, and momentum. Owing to its remoteness and harsh environment, this region is significantly undersampled, hampering the validation of prediction models and large-scale observations from satellite sensors. Here, an unprecedented data set of simultaneous observations of winds, surface currents, and ocean waves is presented, to address the scarcity of in situ observations in the region – https://doi.org/10.26179/5ed0a30aaf764 (Alberello et al., 2020c) and https://doi.org/10.26179/5e9d038c396f2 (Derkani et al., 2020). Records were acquired underway during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), which went around the Southern Ocean from December 2016 to March 2017 (Austral summer). Observations were obtained with the wave and surface current monitoring system WaMoS-II, which scanned the ocean surface around the vessel using marine radars. Measurements were assessed for quality control and compared against available satellite observations. The data set is the most extensive and comprehensive collection of observations of surface processes for the Southern Ocean and is intended to underpin improvements of wave prediction models around Antarctica and research of air–sea interaction processes, including gas exchange and dynamics of sea spray aerosol particles. The data set has further potentials to support theoretical and numerical research on lower atmosphere, air–sea interface, and upper-ocean processes.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This work was part of the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE). MHD was partially supported by a PhD top-up scholarship from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. MHD, AA, FN and AT acknowledge technical support form the Air-Sea-Ice Lab initiative.This research has been supported by the ACE Foundation and Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Project 17), the CRC-P initiative of the Australian Government (grant no. CRC-P53991), and the Australian Antarctic Program (grant no. AAS 4434). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | earth and planetary sciences(all),sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900 |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2021 01:51 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2024 01:36 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/82078 |
| DOI: | 10.5194/essd-13-1189-2021 |
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