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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans Année : 2023

Variability and Remote Controls of the Warm-Water Halo and Taylor Cap at Maud Rise

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The region of Maud Rise, a seamount in the Weddell Sea, is known for the occurrence of irregular polynya openings during the winter months. Hydrographic observations have shown the presence of a warmer water mass below the mixed layer along the seamount's flanks, commonly termed the warm-water Halo, surrounding a colder region above the rise, the Taylor Cap. Here we use two observational data sets, an eddy-permitting reanalysis product and regional high-resolution simulations, to investigate the interannual variability of the Halo and Taylor Cap for the period 2007-2022. Observations include novel hydrographic profiles obtained in the Maud Rise area in January 2022, during the first SO-CHIC cruise. It is demonstrated that the temperature of deep waters around Maud Rise exhibits strong interannual variability within the Halo and Taylor Cap, occasionally to such an extent that the two features become indistinguishable. A warming of deep waters by as much as 0.8°C is observed in the Taylor Cap during the years preceding the opening of a polynya in 2016 and 2017, starting in 2011. By analyzing regional simulations, we show that most of the observed variability in the Halo is forced remotely by advection of deep waters from the Weddell Gyre into the region surrounding Maud Rise. Our highest-resolution simulation indicates that mesoscale eddies subsequently transfer the properties of the Halo's deep waters onto the Taylor Cap. The eddies responsible for such transfer originate in an abrupt retroflection along the inner flank of the Halo.

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insu-04188262 , version 1 (25-08-2023)

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Birte Gülk, Fabien Roquet, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Aditya Narayanan, clement rousset, et al.. Variability and Remote Controls of the Warm-Water Halo and Taylor Cap at Maud Rise. Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans, 2023, 128, ⟨10.1029/2022JC019517⟩. ⟨insu-04188262⟩
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