Southern Ocean; Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Vertical velocity of the water column (currents); Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)

This dataset consists of model outputs from ensemble simulations of an idealised Southern Ocean using a quasi-geotrophic model called Q-GCM. As such, there are no calendar dates associated with it. Two models were generated: Initial Condition Perturbation Ensemble (ICPE) experiments model output covers years 162-168 of the simulation; Boundary Condition Perturbation Ensemble (BCPE) experiments model output covers years 150-180 of the simulation. The models created form the practical element of the NERC project 'The structure and stability of transport and fixing barriers within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current'. The project aims to quantify the relationship between Southern Ocean winds, the eddy saturation mechanism and the branch-like structure of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. The work was funded by means of Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Discovery Science New Investigators Grant NE/I001794/1. The grant ran from 02 August 2010 to 21 September 2012 and was led by Dr. Chris Wilson at the UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The model simulation data were submitted to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for archive and are stored in the originator format.

Thompson A (2011) Rapid Southern Ocean front transitions in an eddy-resolving ocean GCM, Geophysical Research Letters; Wilson C (2014) Forced and intrinsic variability in the response to increased wind stress of an idealized Southern Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

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