West Antarctic cooling mechanism in WIND+_meridional simulation

[adele-morrison]

Why does West Antarctica (also that weird region just downstream of the Ross Sea) cool in the WIND+_meridional simulation?

Ideas to investigate this:

• Plot transects in West Antarctica
• Plot sea ice formation changes

Were there other suggestions we mentioned?

[wghuneke]

Just a reminder that we started to look at this here.

[wghuneke]

Ideas what to look at:

• sea ice/melt changes
• regional Ekman pumping
• T/S changes on isopycnals

[adele-morrison]

Transects in West Antarctica:

Bellingshausen:

Amundsen:

west of Amundsen: