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Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus.
Ocean heat uptake is observed to penetrate deep into the Atlantic and Southern Oceans during the recent hiatus of global warming. Here we show that the deep heat penetration in these two basins is not unique to the hiatus but is characteristic of anthropogenic warming and merely reflects the depth of the mean meridional overturning circulation in the basin. We find, however, that heat redistribution in the upper 350 m between the Pacific and Indian Oceans is closely tied to the surface warming hiatus. The Indian Ocean shows an anomalous warming below 50 m during hiatus events due to an enhanced heat transport by the Indonesian throughflow in response to the intensified trade winds in the equatorial Pacific. Thus, the Pacific and Indian Oceans are the key regions to track ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus
Kinetic Ballooning Mode Under Steep Gradient: High Order Eigenstates and Mode Structure Parity Transition
The existence of kinetic ballooning mode (KBM) high order (non-ground)
eigenstates for tokamak plasmas with steep gradient is demonstrated via
gyrokinetic electromagnetic eigenvalue solutions, which reveals that eigenmode
parity transition is an intrinsic property of electromagnetic plasmas. The
eigenstates with quantum number for ground state and for
non-ground states are found to coexist and the most unstable one can be the
high order states (). The conventional KBM is the state. It is
shown that the KBM has the same mode structure parity as the
micro-tearing mode (MTM). In contrast to the MTM, the KBM can be driven
by pressure gradient even without collisions and electron temperature gradient.
The relevance between various eigenstates of KBM under steep gradient and edge
plasma physics is discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
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