Observational evidence of reemergence in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere

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Ciasto, Laura M. and Thompson, David W. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5413-4376 (2009) Observational evidence of reemergence in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Climate, 22 (6). 1446–1453. ISSN 0894-8755

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Abstract

Observations of subsurface temperatures are used to examine the winter-to-winter “reemergence” of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the extratropical South Pacific Ocean. Reemergence is the mechanism through which SST anomalies formed in the late winter are sequestered beneath the relatively shallow summer mixed layer and then reentrained into the deepening mixed layer during the following autumn/winter. Although several studies have extensively examined reemergence in the Northern Hemisphere (NH), this is the first study to use observations of subsurface temperatures to document reemergence in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere (SH). The SH subsurface data reveal a pronounced reemergence signal in the western extratropical South Pacific. In this region, surface thermal anomalies formed during late SH winter are observed to persist below the summertime mixed layer and reemerge at the surface during the following early winter months. As such, SST anomalies formed during late winter are strongly correlated with SST anomalies during the following early winter but are not significantly correlated with SST anomalies during the intervening summer months. The results based on subsurface data are robust to small changes in the period of analysis and are qualitatively similar to existing evidence of reemergence in the NH. Analyses of independent SST data reveal that reemergence is widespread in the western extratropical South Pacific basin but is less discernible in SST anomalies over the eastern part of the basin.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit
Related URLs:	https://publons.com/publon/5036243/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Jun 2022 11:30
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2023 00:34
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/85392
DOI:	10.1175/2008JCLI2545.1

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