FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Isotopic evidence for an intensified hydrological cycle in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean BT AF Hayatte Akhoudas, Camille Sallée, Jean-Baptiste Reverdin, Gilles Haumann, Alexander F. Pauthenet, Etienne Chapman, Christopher Margirier, Félix Lo Monaco, Claire Metzl, Nicolas Meilland, Julie Stranne, Christian AS 1:1,2;2:3;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:6;7:7;8:;9:3;10:3;11:1,2,8; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH;6:;7:;8:;9:;10:;11:; C1 Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden CNRS/IRD/MNHN, LOCEAN, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, Princeton, United States LOPS, IFREMER, Plouzané, France CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States MARUM, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany C2 UNIV STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN UNIV STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE UNIV PRINCETON, USA IFREMER, FRANCE CSIRO, AUSTRALIA GEORGIA INST TECHNOL, USA UNIV BREMEN MARUM, GERMANY SI BREST SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH UM LOPS IN WOS Ifremer UMR DOAJ copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 16.6 TC 2 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00789/90144/102348.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00789/90144/102349.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00789/90144/102350.pdf LA English DT Article CR OISO - OCÉAN INDIEN SERVICE D'OBSERVATION AB The hydrological cycle is expected to intensify in a warming climate. However, observational evidence of such changes in the Southern Ocean is difficult to obtain due to sparse measurements and a complex superposition of changes in precipitation, sea ice, and glacial meltwater. We here disentangle these signals using a unique dataset of salinity and seawater oxygen isotope observations collected in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. Our results show that the atmospheric water cycle has intensified in this region between 1993 and 2021, increasing the salinity in subtropical surface waters by 0.07 g kg-1 per decade, and decreasing it in subpolar surface waters by -0.028 g kg-1 per decade. In the subpolar region, this salinity decrease is countered by a salinity increase of 0.008 g kg-1 per decade from reduced sea ice melt, and enhanced by a salinity decrease of -0.005 g kg-1 per decade from increased glacial melt. These changes extend the growing evidence for an acceleration of the atmospheric water cycle and a melting cryosphere that can be expected from global warming. PY 2023 PD MAY SO Nature Communications SN 2041-1723 PU Nature Research VL 14 IS 1 UT 001001531500013 DI 10.1038/s41467-023-38425-5 ID 90144 ER EF