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New oceanographic observations are used for studying the Kamchatka Current and the Alaskan Stream and its Aleutian eddies in 1990–2017. The Aleutian eddies are mesoscale anticyclonic eddies that are formed within the Alaskan Stream southward of the Aleutian Islands be tween 170° and 180° E and are moving to the southwest. The rapid freshening of the upper layer and the increase in tem-perature and salinity in the Kamchatka Current halocline are detected. In the upper layer of the Kamchatka Current, salinity decreased by 0.2 psu per 27 years. The most rapid variations in salinity and temperature have been observed in recent years. In the halocline (at the isopycnic of 26.75σθ) temperature rose by 1.4°C and salinity in creased by 0.15 psu. The maximum temperature of the warm intermediate layer in the Kamchatka Current exceeded 4°C for the first time. The most likely reason for the temperature and salinity increase in the halocline is the transport of warm and salt water by the Aleu-tian eddies. 相似文献
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Considerable variations in intermediate water characteristics were found in the upper Oyashio based on the oceanographic data from 1953 to 2007. The long-term temperature trend at the 26.75σ? isopycnal is 0.03°C/year. This temperature trend is considerably higher than that determined earlier for the Sea of Okhotsk intermediate water and much higher than the World Ocean temperature trend. The westward transport of warm and salty water of the Alaskan Stream is most likely to cause the changes in the Kamchatka Current and upper Oyashio. It is established that Aleutian mesoscale eddies move westward from the location of their formation south of the Blizhniy Strait and transport warm water (3.8–4.2°C) in their core (100–600 m, ～26.75σ?)). As the trajectory of eddies is quite stable, the westward flow of warm and salty intermediate waters considerably influences the upper Oyashio characteristics. 相似文献
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Data on salinity and δ18O from the NASA open-source database are used to estimate the Laptev Sea water mass transformation during ice formation and melting. The indicator of these processes is salinity variation. The estimates for the Laptev Sea show that the amount of meltwater can reach 40% for the sea water with salinity below 7 psu. In this case, sea water salinity reduction due to the meltwater inflow alone can be equal to 0.2-0.7 psu. In the sea water with salinity above 7 psu, ice formation prevails over ice melting. This process is the most strongly pronounced in the range of sea water salinity from 15 to 25 psu. In this salinity range, the average water removal for the ice formation makes up 9% (the maximum is 24%), and the average salinity growth is 0.5 psu (the maximum is 1.7 psu). The most transformed sea water masses during ice formation are located in the bottom layer of the shallow southern and southeastern parts of the Laptev Sea, where the sea depth is not more than 50 m. 相似文献
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The influence of interannual variability of water transport by the East Kamchatka Current, the Oyashio, and the East Sakhalin Current on the dissolved oxygen concentration in the western subarctic Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk is considered for studying climate change impact on sea water chemical parameters. It is shown that statistically significant relation is observed between the calculated with the Sverdrup equation interannual variations in water transport with the East Kamchatka Current, the Oyashio, and the East Sakhalin Current and changes in mean sea water level at coastal stations in winter. It is found that the main reason of interannual variability of the dissolved oxygen concentration at isopycnic surfaces in the intermediate water layer (100–800 m) of the Sea of Okhotsk and in the western subarctic Pacific is caused by variations in water transport by the East Kamchatka Current, the Oyashio, and the East Sakhalin Current. 相似文献
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N. S. Vanin 《Russian Meteorology and Hydrology》2013,38(10):688-693
Using the data of CTD observations in the Kuril region of the Pacific Ocean, vertical structures of water masses are analyzed and differentiated using the Turner angle Tu in the layer between the isopycnic surfaces of 26.5 and 26.8 σθ. The former characterizes the core of the cold intermediate layer in the subarctic water structure and the latter, the intermediate salinity minimum in the subtropical water structure. Vertical variations of temperature and salinity in the specified density range for subarctic and subtropical water structures are opposite to each other, and the Turner angle changes the sign from negative to positive when crossing the boundary between them. The isoline Tu = ?45° denotes disappearance of the cold intermediate layer, Tu = 0°, an outcrop of the halocline along with the salinity front formation, and Tu = 45° is the northern boundary of the subtropical water. Obtained are the relationships between the Turner angle and the variations of temperature and salinity within the mentioned layer. Demonstrated are the benefits of the proposed method for localizing the boundaries of the subarctic front as compared with traditional methods. 相似文献
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Hydrographic and direct current measurements were made in the Eastern Equatorial Indian Ocean in May 2010 and April 2011 as part of the Eastern Indian Ocean Cruises(EIOC) organized by the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology(SCSIO).Analyses of the shipdrift Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler(ADCP) data indicate that the equatorial currents observed in May 2010 are characterized by a strongly eastward surface current(Wyrtki Jets,WJs) with a maximum velocity of 0.9 m s 1,while that observed in April 2011 is weak and without a consistent direction.The strongly eastward WJ transports the surface water eastward,resulting in a deeper upper mixed layer,as shown in the temperature and salinity profiles.However,it was found that the Equatorial Undercurrent(EUC) in the Eastern Indian Ocean is strong in April 2011 and weak in May 2010.The EUC was located approximately at the position of the thermocline,and it had higher salinity(up to approximately 35.5 psu) than the upper and lower waters. 相似文献
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The seasonal variability of oceanographic conditions in the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk is described based on long-term mean temperature T and salinity S from observations along a standard oceanographic section Cape Aniva-Cape Dokuchaev (May–November). It is shown that the Soya Current is relatively weak in spring, with low temperature and salinity gradients along the section. The Sea of Okhotsk low-salinity water mass is observed in the upper layer. It was formed as a result of melting of a large amount of ice brought here with the East Sakhalin Current from the northwestern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. A cold intermediate layer (CIL) at depths of 50–150 m extends along the entire section. The cold intermediate layer core with a temperature at the edge of the Sakhalin shelf of about ?1.3°C is retained during a period of maximum warming in August; however, in October–November the intensified flow of the East Sakhalin Current (up to 50 cm/s) results in a situation when relatively warm low-salinity waters, connected with the Amur River runoff, dissipate CIL. The results of 12 surveys conducted by the Sakhalin Research Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography in 1998–2004 show significant deviations of T and S [10] in different years from the calculated values. Generally, maximum anomalies (ΔT > 4°C and ΔS > 0.55‰) are observed in the surface layer. Their values and statistical significance decrease with depth. However, the situation is opposite in some cases. The maximum deviation from normal was observed in June 1999, when warm and salt waters were located much further seaward from the Kunashir shelf, which is most likely connected with the Soya Current meandering. 相似文献
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An overview of a new comprehensive observational study of the Loop Current (LC) in the eastern Gulf of Mexico that encompassed full-depth and near-bottom moorings, pressure-equipped inverted echo sounders (PIES) and remote sensing is presented. The study array was designed to encompass the LC from the Campeche Bank to the west Florida escarpment. This overview centers about principal findings as they pertain to mesoscale dynamics. Two companion papers provide in-depth analyses. Three LC anticyclonic eddy separation events were observed with good 3D spatial coverage over the 2½ year extent of the field study; the three separations exhibited similar processes after the LC had extended into the eastern Gulf. Large scale (∼300 km wavelength, 40–60 day periods) southward propagating meanders developed on the eastern side of the LC over deep (∼3000 m) water that were the result of baroclinic instability between the upper layer meandering jet and lower layer cyclones and anticyclones. The lower layer was only highly energetic during relatively short (∼2–3 months) intervals just prior to or during eddy detachments because of baroclinic instability. The steepening of the meanders lead to a pinch-off of LC eddies. The deep lower-layer eddies, constrained by the closed topography of the southeastern Gulf, propagated westward across the detachment zone and appear to assist in achieving separation. Small scale (∼50–100 km, periods ∼10 days) frontal eddies, observed on the western side of the LC along the Campeche Bank slope, decay over the deep water of the northern part of an extended LC, and have little influence on lower layer eddies, the east side meanders and the eddy detachment processes. 相似文献
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A scenario of the Mediterranean Sea is performed for the twenty-first century based on an ocean modelling approach. A climate change IPCC-A2 scenario run with an atmosphere regional climate model is used to force a Mediterranean Sea high-resolution ocean model over the 1960–2099 period. For comparison, a control simulation as long as the scenario has also been carried out under present climate fluxes. This control run shows air–sea fluxes in agreement with observations, stable temperature and salinity characteristics and a realistic thermohaline circulation simulating the different intermediate and deep water masses described in the literature. During the scenario, warming and saltening are simulated for the surface (+3.1°C and + 0.48 psu for the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the twenty-first century) and for the deeper layers (+1.5°C and + 0.23 psu on average). These simulated trends are in agreement with observed trends for the Mediterranean Sea over the last decades. In addition, the Mediterranean thermohaline circulation (MTHC) is strongly weakened at the end of the twenty-first century. This behaviour is mainly due to the decrease in surface density and so the decrease in winter deep-water formation. At the end of the twenty-first century, the MTHC weakening can be evaluated as −40% for the intermediate waters and −80% for the deep circulation with respect to present-climate conditions. The characteristics of the Mediterranean Outflow Waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean are also strongly influenced during the scenario. 相似文献
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Temperature variance and temperature power spectra in the unstable surface layer have always presented a problem to the standard
Monin-Obukhov similarity model. Recently that problem has intensified with the demonstration by Smedman et al. (2007, Q J
Roy Meteorol Soc 133: 37–51) that temperature spectra and heat-flux cospectra can have two distinct peaks in slightly unstable
conditions, and by McNaughton et al. (2007, Nonlinear Process Geophys 14: 257–271) who showed that the wavenumber of the peak
of temperature spectra in a convective boundary layer (CBL), closely above the surface friction layer (SFL), can be sensitive
to the CBL depth, z
i. Neither the two-peak form at slight instability nor the dependence of peak position on z
i at large instability is compatible with the Monin-Obukhov model. Here we examine the properties of temperature spectra and
heat-flux cospectra from between these extremes, i.e. from within the unstable SFL, in two experiments. The analysis is based
on McNaughton’s model of the turbulence structure in the SFL. According to this model, heat is transported through most of
the SFL by sheet plumes, created by the action of impinging outer eddies. The smallest and most effective of these outer eddies
have sizes that scale on SFL depth, z
s. The z
s-scale eddies and plumes are organised within the overall convection pattern in the CBL, and in turn they organise the motion
of smaller eddies within the SFL, whose sizes scale on height, z. The main experimental results are: (1) the peak amplitudes of the temperature spectra in the SFL are collapsed with a scaling
factor (zsz)1/3eo2/3{(z_{\rm s}z)^{1/3}\varepsilon_{\rm o}^{2/3}} divided by the square of the surface temperature flux, where eo{\varepsilon_{\rm o}} is the dissipation rate of turbulent energy in the outer CBL (above the SFL); (2) the peak wavenumbers of the temperature
spectra are collapsed with the mixed length scale (z
i
z
s)1/2; (3) the peak wavenumbers of the heat-flux cospectra are collapsed with the doubly-mixed length scale (z
i
z
s)1/4
z
1/2; (4) for z/z
s < 0.03, the peak in the cospectrum is replaced by another peak at a wavenumber about a magnitude larger. This peak’s position
scales on z; (5) all these findings are consistent with the observations of Smedman et al. 相似文献
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Pierre Welander 《Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans》1982,6(4):233-242
A theoretical study is made of a simple mixed-layer model, in the form of a well-mixed constant-depth layer, forced from above by a heat flux kT(TA−T) and salinity flux kS(SA−S), where TA and SA are two reference values and T and S the temperature and salinity of the layer. The layer has a turbulent exchange of heat and salt with underlying water, kept at constant temperature and salinity, which is small in a statically stable case; large in a statically unstable case. If kT>kS, self-sustained oscillations may occur. In one cycle, a fast temperature rise, a slower salinity increase, and a final relaxation when the layer adjusts to the conditions of the underlying water, are observed. 相似文献
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Large-eddy simulations (LESs) are employed to investigate the turbulence characteristics in the shear-free convective boundary
layer (CBL) driven by heterogeneous surface heating. The patterns of surface heating are arranged as a chessboard with two
different surface heat fluxes in the neighbouring patches, and the heterogeneity scale Λ in four different cases is taken as 1.2, 2.5, 5.0 and 10.0 km, respectively. The results are compared with those for the
homogeneous case. The impact of the heterogeneity scale on the domain-averaged CBL characteristics, such as the profiles of
the potential temperature and the heat flux, is not significant. However, different turbulence characteristics are induced
by different heterogeneous surface heating. The greatest turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) is produced in the case with the largest
heterogeneity scale, whilst the TKE in the other heterogeneous cases is close to that for the homogeneous case. This result
indicates that the TKE is not enhanced unless the scale of the heterogeneous surface heating is large enough. The potential
temperature variance is enhanced more significantly by a larger surface heterogeneity scale. But this effect diminishes with
increasing CBL height, which implies that the turbulent eddy structures are changed during the CBL development. Analyses show
that there are two types of organized turbulent eddies: one relates to the thermal circulations induced by the heterogeneous
surface heating, whilst the other identifies with the inherent turbulent eddies (large eddies) induced by the free convection.
At the early stage of the CBL development, the dominant scale of the organized turbulent eddies is controlled by the scale
of the surface heterogeneity. With time increasing, the original pattern breaks up, and the vertical velocity eventually displays
horizontal structures similar to those for the homogeneous heating case. It is found that after this transition, the values
of λ/z
i
(λ is the dominant horizontal scale of the turbulent eddies, z
i
is the boundary-layer height) ≈1.6, which is just the aspect ratio of large eddies in the CBL. 相似文献
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We present an analysis of the inter-annual variability of hydrography—temperature and salinity – and ice conditions at the coastal site of Tvärminne, Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea during the period 1927–2012. The aim is to analyze the natural variability and trends of the hydrographic characteristics, freezing and breakup dates, ice thickness, and the heat content during the last century. The study also includes the inter-connections between the ice season and the surface temperature and salinity in the open water season. The results showed a significant decrease of the ice season length, by almost 30 days. The maximum annual ice thickness decreased by 8 cm in the last 40 years. The surface water temperature increased by almost 1 °C and there was also an increasing trend in the heat content. The thermal memory of the system was 2–2.5 months. The surface salinity increased by 0.5 psu in the last 85 years. The results are discussed and compared to related studies. 相似文献
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Theory And Measurements For Turbulence Spectra And Variances In The Atmospheric Neutral Surface Layer 总被引：20，自引：17，他引：3
Predictions from a new theory for high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers during near-neutral conditions are shown to agree well with measurements of atmospheric surface-layer variances and spectra. The theory suggests surface-layer turbulence is determined by detached eddies that largely originate in the shearing motion immediately above the surface layer; as they descend into this layer, they are strongly distorted by the local shear and impinge onto the surface. Because the origin of these eddies is non-local, they are similar to those described in previous studies as `inactive' turbulence. However, they are, in fact, dynamically highly active, supplying the major mechanism for the momentum transport, including upward bursting on the time scale of the larger eddies. The vertical velocity results show that the variance and the low frequency parts of spectra increase with height in the surface layer, while in the self similar (k1
-1) range the streamwise low frequency components are approximately constant with height. These large-scale longitudinal eddies extend to a length s, which is equal to the boundary-layer height near the surface andincreases linearly to a maximum of about three times the boundary-layer height at roughly 15 m and decreases in the upper parts of the surface layer. This lower part of the surface layer, the eddy surface layer, is the region in which the eddies impinging from layers above are strongly distorted. This new result for the atmospheric boundary layer has practical application for calculating fluctuating wind loads on structures and lateral dispersion of pollution from local sources. 相似文献
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在51年(1958-2008)西北太平洋区域海洋再分析CORA1.0产品的基础上,改进了模式配置和同化方法,研制了2009-18年的CORA产品并对其进行以下检验:(1)温盐和海表高度异常均方根误差分布检验;(2)35°N处温度断面分布检验;(3)再分析流场和表漂浮标轨迹对比检验.结果显示,2009-18年的CORA产品可以再现海洋要素长时间序列,时空多尺度的变化特征,为研究特征海洋现象和过程提供背景信息. 相似文献
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Abstract Observations in both the ice and slush layers suggest that sea water intrudes into the snow layer following a snow storm. Ice temperature values recorded at 1 cm below the snow‐ice interface show that the upward flux of sea water is of short duration. This is followed by a period of intense brine drainage characterized by the migration of a salty brine layer, with salinities up to 42 psu. These results suggest that a snow storm induces a complete (upward) flushing of the brine channel network and major modifications of snow and ice characteristics. Melt rates and downward brine fluxes were calculated using salinity measured in a 40 cm deep box placed on the ice‐water interface, which isolated a 50 × 50 cm area of sea ice from ocean mixing processes. In this semi‐isolated environment, observed salinity changes allowed us to determine melt water fluxes and brine drainage or flushing even though ice thickness measurements did not show any significant change. Melt rates up to 21 cm/month and equivalent growth rates up to 32 cm/month were measured. 相似文献
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Based on the data of deep-ocean ship observations of temperature T and salinity S, analysis is carried out of the fields of pair correlation coefficients between T and S at different depths as an additional characteristic of water masses in the layer 0–1000 m in the North Atlantic. As a result of analysis, surface, subsurface, and the upper part of North Atlantic intermediate waters are classified according to a degree of correlation between temperature and salinity. The emphasis was given to regions with low correlations, because they indicate the prevalence of the interaction processes that differ most from the typical mixing of two water masses with entirely different characteristics. 相似文献
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利用日本多功能运输卫星（Multi-functional Transport Satellite,简称为MTSAT-2）逐小时云顶亮温资料、Climate Prediction Center Morphing Technique（CMORPH）逐3小时降水资料及南海北部的现场观测资料,对2014年第16号热带气旋"凤凰"的结构演变和远距离洋面上的海洋响应特征进行了研究。结果表明:高空环流形势场的变化主导了"凤凰"的移动方向,调整其云系结构;"凤凰"过境期间测站处气压和气温明显下降,风速和相对湿度有所增加,并伴随有多次阵性降雨过程,最大降雨量可达174 mm/h;"凤凰"引起的强混合的热泵作用导致测站处海洋混合层冷却加深,三个站位观测到的最大海表面降温分别为0.53 ℃（站位2）、0.50 ℃（站位4）、1.18 ℃（站位5）;"凤凰"期间海表面盐度下降,且强降盐过程与降水时段具有较好的时间一致性,降水时段内,三个站位观测到的表层最大降盐量分别为0.557 psu（站位2）、0.407 psu（站位4）、0.773 psu（站位5）。 相似文献
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The magnitude and even direction of recent Antarctic climate change is still debated because the paucity of long and complete
instrumental data records. While along Antarctic Peninsula a strong warming coupled with large retreat of glaciers occurred,
in continental Antarctica a cooling was recently detected. Here, the first existing permafrost data set longer than 10 years
recorded in continental Antarctica is presented. Since 1997 summer ground surface temperature showed a strong warming trend
(0.31°C per year) although the air temperature was almost stable. The summer ground surface temperature increase seemed to
be influenced mainly by the increase of the total summer radiation as confirmed also by the increase of the summer thawing
degree days. In the same period the active layer exhibited a thickening trend (1 cm per year) comparable with the thickening
rates observed in several Arctic locations where air warming occurred. At all the investigated depths permafrost exhibited
an increase of mean annual temperature of approximately 0.1°C per year. The dichotomy between active layer thickness and air
temperature trends can produce large unexepected and unmodelled impacts on ecosystems and CO2 balance. 相似文献
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I. A. Zhabin V. B. Lobanov S. Watanabe M. Wakita S. N. Taranova 《Russian Meteorology and Hydrology》2010,35(3):218-224
Hydrological and hydrochemical conditions in the Kamchatka Strait are considered, the computation of geostrophic flows is carried out, and estimations of the water exchange between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean through this strait are made on the basis of the analysis of data obtained during the trip of the research vessel Miraii in August, 2004. According to the results of computations, the volume transport from the Bering Sea to the Pacific Ocean made up 10.2 Sv; mass transport, 10.4 × 109 kg/s; salt transport, 0.35 × 106 kg/s. The estimated value of heat transport through the strait is 11.4 × 1015 W. The Eastern Kamchatka Current carries oxygen and biogenic elements through the strait: 1222, 28, 380, and 1036 kmol/s for oxygen, phosphates, nitrates, and silicon, respectively. In total, the Bering Sea is the source of oxygen and biogenic elements for the northern part of the Pacific Ocean in the upper 500-m layer. 相似文献