Potential drivers of the trends in seasonal air-sea heat fluxes over South Atlantic Ocean

SOLMAN, SILVINA; SARACENO, MARTIN; LEYBA, INÉS MERCEDES

Cargèse, Corsica

Workshop; 7th SOLAS Summer School 2018; 2018

Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) projec

The understanding of latent and sensible heat fluxes (LHF and SHF, respectively) is essential to understand how the atmosphere and oceans interact. The South Atlantic (SA) Ocean is one of the regions where the largest trends in sea surface temperature (SST), LHF, SHF, near surface winds, have been identified, especially over the Agulhas Current (ACR) and the Brazil Current region (BCR). One of the key ingredients in determining the turbulent heat fluxes is closely related with SST. This work assesses the influence of SST trends on heat fluxes trends, considering the SA as a case of study.