New research has revealed that underwater waves, some towering as high as 500 meters, located deep below the ocean surface, play a crucial role in the ocean's heat and carbon storage. A team of international researchers, headed by the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University
, have quantified the impact of underwater waves and other forms of turbulence in the Atlantic Ocean. They discovered that current climate models, which inform government policy, fail to accurately reflect the significance of these underwater phenomena.
Underwater waves deep below the ocean’s surface – some as tall as 500 metres – play an important role in how the ocean stores heat and carbon, according to new research.
“The Atlantic Ocean is special in how it affects the global climate,” said co-author Dr. Ali Mashayek from Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences. “It has a strong pole-to-pole circulation from its upper reaches to the deep ocean. The water also moves faster at the surface than it does in the deep ocean.”
Like a giant cake, the ocean is made up of different layers, with colder, denser water at the bottom, and warmer, lighter water at the top. Most heat and carbon transport within the ocean happens within a particular layer, but heat and carbon can also move between density layers, bringing deep waters back to the surface.
“Climate models do account for turbulence, but mostly in how it affects ocean circulation,” said Cimoli. “But we’ve found that turbulence is vital in its own right, and plays a key role in how much carbon and heat gets absorbed by the ocean, and where it gets stored.”
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