Welcome to Water Mass Transformation (WMT) Tools. This page will be online with content for the OSM 2020.

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Consider to submit an abstract to the WMT session at OSM 2020, deadline is Sept 11!

Preliminary Content

WMT for Ocean Physics and Biogeochemistry, Feb 2019, UNSW, Sydney, Australia: program outline & participants.

Reviews and technical literature

Groeskamp et al, 2019, The water mass transformation framework for ocean physics and biogeochemistry, Annual Review of Marine Science, vol. 11, pp. 271 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-010318-095421.

Examples of tantalizing questions approached with WMT diagnostics

Iudicone et al, 2016, The formation of the ocean’s anthropogenic carbon reservoir, Scientific Reports, 6, (35473), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep35473.
Skliris et al, 2016: Global water cycle amplifying at less than the clausius-clapeyron rate. Scientific Reports, 6 (38752), https://www.nature.com/articles/srep38752.
Abernathey et al, 2016, Water-mass transformation by sea ice in the upper branch of the Southern Ocean overturning. Nature Geoscience, 9, 596–601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2749.
Pellichero et al, 2018: The Southern Ocean meridional overturning in the sea-ice sector is driven by freshwater fluxes. Nature communications, 9 (1789), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04101-2.
De Lavergne et al, 2017: Abyssal ocean overturning shaped by seafloor distribution. Nature, 551, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24472.
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