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本文利用横波分裂方法对北京大学于田流动台阵记录的SKS震相进行分析,获到了阿尔金断裂西部及邻区的上地幔各向异性参数.分析结果显示,快波偏振方向在整个研究区基本呈近E-W向,与研究区内阿尔金断裂的走向几乎一致,分裂延迟时间在0.93~1.20s之间.综合研究区附近前人横波分裂研究结果,我们认为,在印度和欧亚大陆板块碰撞作用下,青藏高原北部上地幔软流圈物质向北流动,遇到塔里木盆地"克拉通"较厚岩石圈阻挡并发生了旋转,向东西两侧流动,导致在青藏高原和塔里木盆地边界地带软流圈上地幔橄榄岩中晶格沿近E-W向优势排列.这一模式显示阿尔金断裂可能是一个岩石圈尺度的大型走滑断裂:它既控制近地表的上地壳构造运动,同时也影响了上地幔软流圈物质的流动.另外,在向塔里木盆地内部延伸的台站也观测到显著的各向异性和近EW向的快波偏振方向.这些结果表明塔里木盆地"克拉通"岩石圈的中、下部分在南部边界被青藏高原北部上地幔软流圈流动"热侵蚀"而损失一部分,导致青藏高原软流圈向东西两侧的流动已经延伸到塔里木盆地内部.本文的研究结果揭示克拉通岩石圈"活化"不仅可以在垂直方向发生(如,岩石圈拆沉或软流圈上涌导致的热侵蚀),也可以在水平方向上发生,即软流圈的水平流动对克拉通岩石圈边界的热侵蚀作用. 相似文献
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Modeling the circulation in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
The circulation in the Gulf of Tonkin (Beibu Gulf) was studied using the Princeton Ocean Model, which was forced with the daily surface and lateral boundary fluxes for 2006 and 2007, as well as tidal harmonics and monthly climatological river discharges. In the southern Gulf, the vertically averaged circulation was anti-cyclonic in summer and changed to cyclonic in winter. Although it was highly correlated with the local wind, the southern gyre was driven primarily by the South China Sea (SCS) general circulation from the south. Flows in the Qiongzhou Strait that played a significant role in determining the circulation variability in the northeastern Gulf could be eastward or westward at any given day in summer or winter, but the seasonal mean current was eastward from late spring through summer and westward during the rest of the year, with an annual mean westward transport of ～0.1 Sv into the Gulf. Different water masses were distinguished at the surface with the warm and saline SCS water in the south, relatively fresh plume waters along the northern and western coasts of the Gulf, and the mixture of the two in between. At lower levels, two cold water masses were identified in the model, and each had T/S distributions qualitatively similar to the observations obtained in 2007. These two water masses were produced throughout the winter, sheltered from the surface warming by a thermocline as the season progressed, and eventually disappeared in late fall. 相似文献
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W. Lawrence Gates 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1972,99(1):169-200
Summary The time-dependent primitive equations for a shallow homogeneous ocean with a free surface are solved for a bounded basin on the sphere, driven by a steady zonal wind stress and subject to lateral viscous dissipation. These are the vertically integrated equations for a free-surface model, and are integrated to 60 days from an initial state of rest by an explicit centered-difference method with zero-slip lateral boundary conditions. In a series of comparative numerical solutions it is shown that at least a 2-deg resolution is needed to resolve the western boundary currents adequately and to avoid undue distortion of the transient (Rossby waves. The -plane formulation is shown to be an adequate approximation for the mean circulation in the lower and middle latitudes, but noticeably intensifies the transports poleward of about 50 deg and both slows and distorts the transients in the central basin. The influence of the (southern) zonal boundary on the transport solutions is confined to the southernmost gyre, except in the region of the western boundary currents where its influence spreads to the northern edge of the basin by 30 days. The total boundary current transport is shown to be approximately proportional to the zonal width of the basin and independent of the basin's (uniform) depth, while the elevation of the free water surface is inversely proportional to the basin depth, in accordance with linear theory. The introduction of bottom friction has a marked damping effect on the transient Rossby waves, and also reduces the maximum boundary-current transport. The solutions throughout are approximately geostrophic and are only slightly nonlinear.The root-mean-square (rms) transport variability during the period 30 to 60 days is concentrated in the southwest portion of the basin through the reflection of the transient Rossby waves from the western shore and has a maximum corresponding to an rms current variability of about 3 cm sec–1. The transport variabilities are about 10 percent of the mean zonal transport and more than 100 percent of the mean meridional transport over a considerable region of the western basin (outside the western boundary current regime). Some 99 percent of the total kinetic energy is associated with the zonal mean and standing zonal waves, which are also responsible for the bulk of the meridional transport of zonal angular momentum. Although the transient Rossby waves systematically produce a momentum flux convergence at the latitude of the maximum eastward current, much in the manner of their atmospheric counterparts, this is only a relatively small contribution to the zonal oceanic momentum balance; the bulk of the mean zonal stress is here balanced by a nearly stationary net pressure torque exerted against the meridional boundaries by the wind-raised water. In an ocean without such boundaries the role of the transient circulations may be somewhat more important. 相似文献
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Yasuto Itoh 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》2005,153(4):220-226
Off the southern coast of Hokkaido the Hidaka-oki (offshore Hidaka) basin has developed on the western flank of a collision suture under the influence of long-standing compressional plate motion and provoked tectonic stresses around the northwestern Pacific rim throughout the late Cenozoic. The basin forming history of the Japan arc and Kuril arc collision zone is described on the basis of seismic reflection data interpretation. We identify two stages of basin formation: the older (late Oligocene-Miocene) faulted en echelon graben (pull-apart basin) and younger (Plio-Pleistocene) regional downwarping. Paleoenvironmental changes recorded within the fore-arc sediments indicate that the older basin filled up by the late Miocene. We inferred the volumes of the distinctive basins from the depth-conversion of seismic data, which suggest episodic uplifts and massive erosion of the Hidaka Mountains in the middle-late Miocene and the Plio-Pleistocene. Estimated sediment supply rates into the basins have a similar level for the both stages. Cause of an episodic uplift in the older stage is attributed to the delayed opening of the Japan Sea. The eastern Eurasian margin underwent N-S right-lateral faulting at 25 Ma as a result of rifting of the Kuril back-arc basin. Formation of the Japan Sea back-arc basin since the early Miocene (ca. 20 Ma) caused eastward motion of the western Hokkaido block and transpressive regime along the pre-existing N-S shear deformation zone. 相似文献
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Annual variation of sea surface height, dynamic topography and circulation in the South China Sea —— A TOPEX/Poseidon satellite altimetry study 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The South China Sea (SCS) is a semi-enclosed deep basin with complex topography includ-ing broad continental shelves, steep slopes, and a large deep basin. It is dominated by prevailing southwest monsoon in summer and by much stronger northeast monsoon in… 相似文献
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Shigeru Aoki Yoshikazu Sasai Hideharu Sasaki Humio Mitsudera Guy D. Williams 《Ocean Dynamics》2010,60(3):743-757
Flow structure in the Australian–Antarctic basin is investigated using an eddy-resolving general ocean circulation model and validated with iceberg and middepth float trajectories. A cyclonic circulation system between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Antarctic Slope Current consists of a large-scale gyre in the west (80–110° E) and a series of eddies in the east (120–150° E). The western gyre has an annual mean westward transport of 22 Sv in the southern limb. Extending west through the Princess Elizabeth Trough, 5 Sv of the gyre recirculates off Prydz Bay and joins the western boundary current off the Kerguelen Plateau. Iceberg trajectories from QuickScat and ERS-1/2 support this recirculation and the overall structure of the Antarctic Slope Current against isobath in the model. Argo float trajectories also reveal a consistent structure of the deep westward slope current. This study indicates the presence of a large cyclonic circulation in this basin, which is comparable to the Weddell and Ross gyres. 相似文献
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LiGuang Mao AnCheng Xiao Lei Wu BenLiang Li LiQun Wang QianQian Lou YouPu Dong SuHua Qin 《中国科学:地球科学(英文版)》2014,57(11):2726-2739
The Eastern Kunlun Mountains play an important role in the growth and eastward extrusion of the Tibetan Plateau. Tectonic and sedimentary study of the Cenozoic Qaidam Basin, especially the southern part, provides key evidence for understanding their evolution. Here we present evidence including isopach maps, seismic sections and sedimentary analysis of single well to illustrate the sedimentary development of the basin and the structural features of its southern margin. The Qaidam Basin extended across Qiman Tagh-Eastern Kunlun Mountains in the early Cenozoic and withdrew northward at ca. 35.5 Ma, and then buckled as an EW striking elliptical depression since ca. 14.9 Ma, with the main depocenter migrating eastward. Our results support the view that the Kumukol and Hoh Xil basins joined the Qaidam Basin in the early Cenozoic time and we propose the Eastern Kunlun Mountains uplifted in the mid-Miocene. 相似文献
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TOPEX/Poseidon satellite altimetry data from 1993 to 1999 were used to study mean annual variation of sea surface height anomaly
(SSHA) in the South China Sea (SCS) and to reproduce its climatological monthly surface dynamic topography in conjunction
with historical hydrographic data. The characters and rules of seasonal evolution of the SCS dynamic topography and its upper
circulation were then discussed. Analyses indicate that annual variation of the SCS large-scale circulation could be divided
into four major phases. In winter (from November to February), the SCS circulation is mainly controlled by double cyclonic
gyres with domination of the northern gyre. Other corresponding features include the Kuroshio intrusion from the Luzon Strait
and the northeastward off-shelf current in the area northwest off Kalimantan Island. The double gyre structure disassembled
in spring (from March to April) when the northern gyre remains cyclonic, the southern gyre becomes anticyclonic, and the general
circulation pattern shows a dipole. There is no obvious large-scale closed gyre inside the SCS basin in both summer (from
May to July) and autumn (from August to October) when the SCS Monsoon Jet dominates the circulation, which flows northeastward
across the SCS. Even so, circulation patterns of these two phases diverse significantly. From May to July, the SCS monsoon
jet flows northward near the Vietnam coast and bends eastward along the topography southeast off Hainan Island at about 18°N
forming an anticyclonic turn. It then turns northeastward after crossing the SCS. From August to October, however, the monsoon
Jet leaves the coast of Vietnam and enters interior of the basin at about 13°N, and the general circulation pattern becomes
cyclonic. The Kuroshio intrusion was not obvious in spring, summer and autumn. It is suggested from these observations that
dynamic adjustment of the SCS circulation starts right after the peak period of the prevailing monsoon. 相似文献
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利用一个开边界北太平洋海盆尺度环流模式模拟了北太平洋CFCs的吸收和分布.模式计算了CFC_11海气界面通量及其在海洋中的输运和再分布，考察了开边界对模式模拟结果的影响以及开边界模式中不同沿等密度面扩散系数的影响.打开南边界可以很好地改善赤道以南海区的CFC_11模拟.增加沿等密度面扩散系数使得137°E和165°E断面模拟的高CFC_11水向南、向下输送的强度和影响范围都有明显增大，能很好地改善西北太平洋的模拟结果.西北太平洋是CFC_11的一个重要的汇区，此外在赤道东太平洋上升流区还存在一个小的汇区. 相似文献
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This article presents a suite of long-term numerical simulations that investigate the dynamical mechanisms controlling the circulation in the South Brazil Bight (SBB). The overarching goal of these simulations is to quantify the relative contributions of local wind forcing and the Brazil Current (BC) to the upwelling of nutrient-rich slope water onto the shelf. The model results indicate that the water mass structure of the SBB is controlled by the synergy between wind-driven, inner-shelf upwelling and geostrophic, shelf-break upwelling. The later extends yearlong but the former peaks during the austral summer and decreases towards the winter. The interaction between the poleward flow of the BC and the bottom topography greatly influences the shelf circulation, particularly in the bottom boundary layer. Changes of the SBB coastline direction and shelf width modulate the along-shore pressure gradient and the magnitude of the shelf-break upwelling and downwelling. Thus, although the summer upwelling winds extend over large part of the SBB surface temperatures are warmer in the south because of the cooling effect of the shelf-break upwelling in the northern region. At difference with previous studies of shelf-break dynamics the shelf-break upwelling in our model is not controlled by the uplifting associated with the presence of instabilities of the boundary current or nonlinear accelerations under a variable shelf width. The proposed mechanism is relatively simple. As the boundary current flows along the continental slope, changes in the coastline orientation and along-shore bottom topography modify the along-shore pressure gradient which through geostrophy leads to inshore bottom flow and hence shelf-break upwelling. Such a mechanism can provide insight into upwellings on other western boundary current regions where similar topographic variations exist. 相似文献
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Dynamical Control of Pacific Oceanic Low-frequency Variability on Western Boundary and Marginal Seas
The adjustment of sea surface height (SSH) around the coasts of the Japan/East Sea (JES) and the South China Sea (SCS) basins subjected to extratropical Pacific Oceanic low frequency variability is studied using a Kelvin-planetary wave model and a high resolution numerical model. It is found that the modulation of SSH around the coast of Japan is mainly determined by slow adjustment of planetary waves, which radiate from the west coast of Honshu and Hokkaido due to the coastal Kelvin wave. In contrast, the SSH modulation around the cost of the South China Sea basin is mainly determined by the coastal Kelvin wave, which transfers the anomalous SSH into the SCS via the Luzon Strait and out via the Mindoro Strait. The planetary waves radiating from the west coast of Palawan establish a nearly uniform SSH anomaly in the southern part of the SCS, bounded by an eastward jet at the latitude of the Mindoro Strait. Along the western boundary, SSH anomaly decreases almost linearly toward the south, in accordance with the changing local deformation radius. In these two marginal seas, the mean subtropical Pacific gyre circulation enhances SSH modulation induced by extratropical Pacific low frequency variability. Overall, the SSH adjustment in the JES and the SCS predicted by the analytical model agrees well with the numerical model simulation. Application of this model to interaction between these marginal seas and the open ocean is discussed. 相似文献
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秦岭-大别造山带横贯中国大陆中部,并将我国东部分为南北两部;即华北克拉通和扬子克拉通.在南、北相向运动力系驱动下构成了一个极为复杂的复合、叠加构造带、成矿带和地震活动带.同时导致了该地域异常变化的沉积建造和强烈起伏的结晶基底.然而对它们形成的地球物理边界场响应,岩相和结构的异常变化尚不清晰,特别对盆山之间的耦合响应更缺乏深层动力过程的理解.为此本文通过该区榆林-铜川-涪陵长1000 km剖面的地震探测和研究结果提出：（1）沉积建造厚度变化为4~10 km,结晶基底起伏强烈,幅度可达4~6 km;（2）一系列基底断裂将该区切割为南鄂尔多斯盆地和秦岭北缘前陆盆地、秦岭-大巴造山带和南缘前陆盆地与东北四川盆地,其中前陆盆地为秦岭北渭河盆地和秦岭南通江-万源盆地;（3）秦岭造山带是北部华北克拉通向南推挤、南部扬子克拉通向北推挤下隆升的陆内山体,并构筑了其南、北前陆盆地;（4）秦岭造山带的南、北边界并非是一条边界断层,而应是包括前陆盆地在内的组合界带;（5）秦岭与大巴弧形山系源于同一深部结晶基底,即同根生.这一系列的新认识对深化理解秦岭-大巴造山带形成的深层动力过程和演化机理及厘定扬子克拉通的真实北界具有极为重要的意义. 相似文献
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青藏高原中北部的巴颜喀喇地块是近年来强震最为活跃的地区,自1997年以来在地块周围发生了一系列7级以上地震.2014年于田MS7.3级地震就发生在该地块西边界附近的硝尔库勒盆地南缘,该区是阿尔金断裂、康西瓦断裂和东昆仑断裂等多组不同走向大型走滑活动断裂带的交汇部位,不同断裂走向的突然转变及滑动速率差异使该地区形成局部的拉张应力状态,发育了多条NE和近SN向的左旋正断裂. 通过余震分布、震源机制解结果等资料分析,认为此次地震的发震构造为阿尔金断裂西南端的一条次级断裂——硝尔库勒断裂,地震破裂特征为左旋走滑兼正断性质. 在巴颜喀喇地块这一轮的强震活动中,其北边界和东边界都显示块体向东挤出约7 m的位移量,但块体西边界产生的伸展量明显与整个块体向东的位移量不协调,2014年于田MS7.3级地震是巴颜喀喇地块向东挤出的构造响应和应变调整.模拟结果显示阿尔金主断裂上的库仑应力有所增加,东昆仑—柴达木地块可能为下一个强震活跃区,特别是阿尔金断裂的中西段,是今后应该重点关注和监视的地区. 相似文献
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Development of a modelling methodology for simulation of long-term morphological evolution of the southern Baltic coast 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
The Darss–Zingst peninsula at the southern Baltic Sea is a typical wave-dominated barrier island system which includes an
outer barrier island and an inner lagoon. The formation of the Darss–Zingst peninsula dates back to the Littorina Transgression
onset about 8,000 cal BP. It originated from several discrete islands, has been reshaped by littoral currents, wind-induced
waves during the last 8,000 years and evolved into a complex barrier island system as today; thus, it may serve as an example
to study the coastal evolution under long-term climate change. A methodology for developing a long-term (decadal-to-centennial)
process-based morphodynamic model for the southern Baltic coastal environment is presented here. The methodology consists
of two main components: (1) a preliminary analysis of the key processes driving the morphological evolution of the study area
based on statistical analysis of meteorological data and sensitivity studies; (2) a multi-scale high-resolution process-based
model. The process-based model is structured into eight main modules. The two-dimensional vertically integrated circulation
module, the wave module, the bottom boundary layer module, the sediment transport module, the cliff erosion module and the
nearshore storm module are real-time calculation modules which aim at solving the short-term processes. A bathymetry update
module and a long-term control function set, in which the ‘reduction’ concepts and technique for morphological update acceleration
are implemented, are integrated to up-scale the effects of short-term processes to a decadal-to-centennial scale. A series
of multi-scale modelling strategies are implemented in the application of the model to the research area. Successful hindcast
of the coastline change of the Darss–Zingst peninsula for the last 300 years validates the modelling methodology. Model results
indicate that the coastline change of the Darss–Zingst peninsula is dominated by mechanisms acting on different time scales.
The coastlines of Darss and the island of Hiddensee are mainly reshaped by long-term effects of waves and longshore currents,
while the coastline change of the Zingst peninsula is due to a combination of long-term effects of waves and short-term effects
caused by wind storms. 相似文献
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This work provides a structural analysis and a stratigraphic revision of the sedimentary successions of the Ligurian Accretionary Complex (LAC) cropping out in the southern Apennines along the boundary between Campania, Lucania and Calabria regions. Two fold and thrust sets characterize the progressive deformation related to the Early Miocene inclusion of these successions in the tectonic accretionary wedge. A third deformation stage, affecting also the Middle-Upper Miocene unconformable wedge-top basin deposits, is associated to the thrust front eastward migration. In this orogenic phase the Apennine thrust sheet pile, formed by LAC and Apennine Platform Units, tectonically covered the successions located in the westernmost sector of the Lagonegro-Molise Basin. Finally a Pliocene-Middle Pleistocene regional fold set deformed the whole orogenic prism as consequence of a thick-skinned tectonics expressed by means of deeply rooted thrusts in the buried Apulian Platform carbonates. Maghrebian Flysch Basin and LAC successions show a similar stratigraphy indicating continuity between paleogeographic basin domains, as well as between the Paleogene-Lower Miocene succession of Sicilide Unit and the corresponding deposits of Lagonegro-Molise Basin as consequence of drowning of the interposed Panormide Platform starting from the uppermost Cretaceous. 相似文献
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Abstract An analysis is presented of the propagation of barotropic non-divergent oscillations along the western side of an ocean basin along which the persistent circulation in the basin is strongly intensified and laterally sheared. Because the Rossby number of a western boundary current is near unity, the properties of these waves are strongly affected by the steady circulation pattern. It is shown that for relatively long wavelengths, these waves can travel along the shelf in both directions; however, for a small range of short wavelengths they can only propagate northward and are unstable. Along the southeastern coast of North America, the unstable waves have wavelengths of order 150 km and periods of order 10 days. However, these waves can become stable oscillations in the deeper water northeast of Cape Hatteras. These oscillations are a possible explanation of the initiation of Gulf Stream meanders along the continental rise. 相似文献
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Aditya R. Kartadikaria Yasumasa Miyazawa Kazuo Nadaoka Atsushi Watanabe 《Ocean Dynamics》2012,62(1):31-44
An eddy-resolving Indo-Pacific ocean circulation model was applied to highlight the behavior of eddies throughout the Indonesian
seas. The complexity of the topography and coastline at the entrance of the Makassar Strait induce an eddy-type throughflow,
instead of a straightforward flow. A sill and a narrow passage in the Makassar strait creates a barrier and impedes the continuation
of eddies from the Pacific ocean, but the existence of a steep deep basin (>500 m depth) between the Java and Flores seas
indicates a possible area for eddies. Based on our numerical results, we described the presence of a unique eddy structure
north of Lombok Island, which we designated the “Lombok Eddy” and verified it by performing a drifter release field experiment
and reviewing monthly mean climatology data from the World Ocean Atlas 2001 and XBT PX2 track data. NCEP/NCAR reanalysis,
satellite observation data, and mixed layer depth analysis were also used to confirm these processes. By analyzing numerical
simulation results and available temperature datasets, two additional eddies were found. All eddies form primarily due to
eastward local winds correlated with seasonal monsoon winds during the austral summer. These eddies vary synchronously at
an interannual time scale. Together, they are referred to as the Lombok Eddy Train (LET), which affects the surface layer
down to a depth of 60 m, and the intensity of the eddy system is strongly affected by mixed layer depth variability from December
to February. 相似文献
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通过阐述北京西北的活动构造定量数据及其精度，用确定性方法、概率方法和综合评分方法，通过排队，比较出北京西北及邻近地区未来强震可能发生的地点，讨论预测结果中存在的一些问题．结果显示，未来强震最危险的断裂段为:阳原盆地南缘断裂B段和A段、延矾盆地的燕水段、宣化盆地南缘断裂、怀安镇南缘断裂东段和阳高——天镇北缘断裂东段等段落．亦即阳原-深井盆地为最危险区；天镇-怀安镇-宣化盆地为次危险区；万全-张家口和蔚县东北-矾山西南为更次危险区． 相似文献
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A high-resolution (1/60°), three-dimensional numerical circulation model of the Cariaco Basin (Venezuela) is constructed by
nesting the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) in the 1/12° global Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). A new bathymetry,
computed by merging DBDB2 data and in situ depth measurements using optimal interpolation, is described. This new bathymetry
corrects the depth of the channels that connect the Cariaco Basin with the open ocean and which play a very important role
in the basin circulation. Results from a 2004 ROMS hindcast are presented. Observations (temperature, salinity, and currents)
are used to validate the model results before using the model to describe the annual cycle of the Cariaco Basin and the interactions
between the basin and the open ocean. Two modes of interaction are described, the first being the meanders and eddies that
travel westward with the Caribbean Current, and the second being a subsurface eastward current that flows along the north
coast of South America. The circulation path within the basin is directly related to the intensity of this current. Both mechanisms
described play a role in the ventilation of the basin. The present study is also an example of the feasibility of one of the
objectives of GODAE (Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment): downscaling from a large-scale model to a regional model.
In particular, the nesting ratio of 5 used in this work demonstrates that a high-resolution model can be successfully nested
in HYCOM. 相似文献
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Andrew F. Bennett 《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》2013,107(1):113-142
AbstractThe flow in a mechanically driven thin barotropic rotating fluid system is analysed. The linear theory of Baker and Robinson (1969) is modified and extended into the non-linear regime.An internal parameter, the “local Rossby number”, is indicative of the onset of nonlinear effects. If this parameter is 0(1) then inertial effects are as important as Coriolis accelerations in the interior of the transport-turning western boundary layer and both of its Ekman layers. The inertial effects in the Ekman layers, ignored in previous explorations of non-linear wind driven oceanic circulation, are retained here and calculated using an approximation of the Oseen type. The circulation problem is reduced to a system of scalar equations in only two independent variables; the system is valid for non-small local Rossby number provided only that the approximate total vorticity is positive.To complete the solution for small Rossby number a boundary condition for the inertially induced transport is needed. It is found by examining the dynamics controlling this additional transport from the western boundary layer as the transport recirculates through the rest of the ocean basin. The strong constraint of total recirculation within the western boundary layer (zero net inertial transport) is derived.The calculated primary inertial effects are in agreement with the observations of the laboratory model of Baker and Robinson (1969).The analysis indicates the extent to which three-dimensional non-linear circulation can be reduced to a two dimensional problem. 相似文献