Neotype of Argis lar Compared with Argis dentata (Crustacea, Decapoda)

1964 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-467
Author(s):  
H. J. Squires

The type specimens of Argis lar were collected in the north Pacific. They are no longer in existence. Specimens identified as A. lar by Rathbun, from the type locality and resembling the original specimens of Owen, are used to set up a neotype. This is done because some authors have assumed that specimens of Argis collected in the north Atlantic were A. lar and not A. dentata which they believed was not a valid species. Also the distribution of both species in northern Canadian waters is not yet clearly understood. Outstanding differences between the two species are discussed.

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 2111-2130
Author(s):  
Woo Geun Cheon ◽  
Jong-Seong Kug

AbstractIn the framework of a sea ice–ocean general circulation model coupled to an energy balance atmospheric model, an intensity oscillation of Southern Hemisphere (SH) westerly winds affects the global ocean circulation via not only the buoyancy-driven teleconnection (BDT) mode but also the Ekman-driven teleconnection (EDT) mode. The BDT mode is activated by the SH air–sea ice–ocean interactions such as polynyas and oceanic convection. The ensuing variation in the Antarctic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) that is indicative of the Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation exerts a significant influence on the abyssal circulation of the globe, particularly the Pacific. This controls the bipolar seesaw balance between deep and bottom waters at the equator. The EDT mode controlled by northward Ekman transport under the oscillating SH westerly winds generates a signal that propagates northward along the upper ocean and passes through the equator. The variation in the western boundary current (WBC) is much stronger in the North Atlantic than in the North Pacific, which appears to be associated with the relatively strong and persistent Mindanao Current (i.e., the southward flowing WBC of the North Pacific tropical gyre). The North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation is controlled by salt advected northward by the North Atlantic WBC.


2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Ritchie ◽  
Kimberly M. Wood ◽  
Oscar G. Rodríguez-Herrera ◽  
Miguel F. Piñeros ◽  
J. Scott Tyo

Abstract The deviation-angle variance technique (DAV-T), which was introduced in the North Atlantic basin for tropical cyclone (TC) intensity estimation, is adapted for use in the North Pacific Ocean using the “best-track center” application of the DAV. The adaptations include changes in preprocessing for different data sources [Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-East (GOES-E) in the Atlantic, stitched GOES-E–Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-West (GOES-W) in the eastern North Pacific, and the Multifunctional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) in the western North Pacific], and retraining the algorithm parameters for different basins. Over the 2007–11 period, DAV-T intensity estimation in the western North Pacific results in a root-mean-square intensity error (RMSE, as measured by the maximum sustained surface winds) of 14.3 kt (1 kt ≈ 0.51 m s−1) when compared to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center best track, utilizing all TCs to train and test the algorithm. The RMSE obtained when testing on an individual year and training with the remaining set lies between 12.9 and 15.1 kt. In the eastern North Pacific the DAV-T produces an RMSE of 13.4 kt utilizing all TCs in 2005–11 when compared with the National Hurricane Center best track. The RMSE for individual years lies between 9.4 and 16.9 kt. The complex environment in the western North Pacific led to an extension to the DAV-T that includes two different radii of computation, producing a parametric surface that relates TC axisymmetry to intensity. The overall RMSE is reduced by an average of 1.3 kt in the western North Pacific and 0.8 kt in the eastern North Pacific. These results for the North Pacific are comparable with previously reported results using the DAV for the North Atlantic basin.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Jochum ◽  
Zanna Chase ◽  
Roman Nutermn ◽  
Joel Pedro ◽  
Sune Rasmussen ◽  
...  

<p>We use a LGM setup of the CESM with marine and terrestrial biogeochemistry. This free-running  set-up (i.e., no freshwater hosing) exhibts Dansgaard-Oeschger events and Antarctic Isotope Maxima with time-lags and amplitudes that are consistent with paleo reconstructions. The CO2 signal associated DO events is also consistent with reconstructions: a 10 ppm/kyr increase during stadials, with the increase continuing some 400 years after Antarctica has started to cool again. An analysis of the modelled air-sea/land carbon fluxes reveals that some 3ppm of the stadial increase are due to shifting rain and temperature patterns that reduce growth of land vegetation. This adjustment is largely concluded after 3 centuries. The remainder of the signal is due to reduced ocean uptake. It turns out that reduced subduction of carbon in the Southern Ocean is mostly compensated by reduced upwelling in the equatorial oceans. Thus, as found in previous studies, much of the extra carbon is due to reduced uptake in the North Atlantic, partly directly due to reduced deep convection, and partly due to a reduced biological productivity because much of the North Atlantic nutrients are supplied by the AMOC. A big surprise is the emergence of the North Pacific as a major contributor to the changes in the air-fluxes of carbon. It is the reorganization of its wind-driven circulation that explains why global net-outgassing of carbon continues long after the interstadial has begun.</p>


2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1347-1389
Author(s):  
R. Séférian ◽  
L. Bopp ◽  
D. Swingedouw ◽  
J. Servonnat

Abstract. Several recent observation-based studies suggest that ocean anthropogenic carbon uptake has slowed down due to the impact of anthropogenic forced climate change. However, it remains unclear if detected changes over the recent time period can really be attributed to anthropogenic climate change or to natural climate variability (internal plus naturally forced variability). One large uncertainty arises from the lack of knowledge on ocean carbon flux natural variability at the decadal time scales. To gain more insights into decadal time scales, we have examined the internal variability of ocean carbon fluxes in a 1000-yr long preindustrial simulation performed with the Earth System Model IPSL-CM5A-LR. Our analysis shows that ocean carbon fluxes exhibit low-frequency oscillations that emerge from their year-to-year variability in the North Atlantic, the North Pacific, and the Southern Ocean. In our model, a 20-yr mode of variability in the North Atlantic air-sea carbon flux is driven by sea surface temperature variability and accounts for ~40% of the interannual regional variance. The North Pacific and the Southern Ocean carbon fluxes are also characterized by decadal to multi-decadal modes of variability (10 to 50 yr) that account for 30–40% of the interannual regional variance. But these modes are driven by the vertical supply of dissolved inorganic carbon through the variability of Ekman-induced upwelling and deep-mixing events. Differences in drivers of regional modes of variability stem from the coupling between ocean dynamics variability and the ocean carbon distribution, which is set by large-scale secular ocean circulation.


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