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Simulation of Formation and Spreading of Salinity Minimum Associated with NPIW Using a High-Resolution Model 总被引:1,自引:2,他引:1
A series of numerical experiments were conducted with a high-resolution (eddy-permitting) North Pacific model to simulate
the formation and spreading of the salinity minimum associated with the North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW). It was found
that two factors are required to simulate a realistic configuration of the salinity minimum: a realistic wind stress field
and small-scale disturbances. The NCEP reanalyzed wind stress data lead to better results than the Hellerman and Rosenstein
wind stress data, due to the closer location of the simulated Oyashio and Kuroshio at the western boundary. Small-scale disturbances
formed by relaxing computational diffusivity included in the advection scheme promote the large-scale isopycnal mixing between
the Oyashio and Kuroshio waters, simulating a realistic configuration of the salinity minimum. A detailed analysis of the
Oyashio water transport was carried out on the final three-year data of the experiment with reduced computational diffusivity.
Simulated transport of the Kuroshio Extension in the intermediate layer is generally smaller than the observed value, while
those of the Oyashio and the flow at the subarctic front are comparable to the observed levels. In the Oyashio-Kuroshio interfrontal
zone the zonally integrated southward transport of the Oyashio water (140–155°E) is borne by the eddy activity, though the
time-mean flow reveals the existence of a coastal Oyashio intrusion. In the eastern part (155°E–180°) the zonally integrated
transport of the Oyashio water indicates a southward peak at the southern edge of the Kuroshio Extension, which corresponds
to the branching of the recirculating flow from the Kuroshio Extension.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
2.
A series of numerical experiments were conducted with a high-resolution (eddy-permitting) North Pacific model to simulate the formation and spreading of the salinity minimum associated with the North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW). It was found that two factors are required to simulate a realistic configuration of the salinity minimum: a realistic wind stress field and small-scale disturbances. The NCEP reanalyzed wind stress data lead to better results than the Hellerman and Rosenstein wind stress data, due to the closer location of the simulated Oyashio and Kuroshio at the western boundary. Small-scale disturbances formed by relaxing computational diffusivity included in the advection scheme promote the large-scale isopycnal mixing between the Oyashio and Kuroshio waters, simulating a realistic configuration of the salinity minimum. A detailed analysis of the Oyashio water transport was carried out on the final three-year data of the experiment with reduced computational diffusivity. Simulated transport of the Kuroshio Extension in the intermediate layer is generally smaller than the observed value, while those of the Oyashio and the flow at the subarctic front are comparable to the observed levels. In the Oyashio-Kuroshio interfrontal zone the zonally integrated southward transport of the Oyashio water (140-155°E) is borne by the eddy activity, though the time-mean flow reveals the existence of a coastal Oyashio intrusion. In the eastern part (155°E-180°) the zonally integrated transport of the Oyashio water indicates a southward peak at the southern edge of the Kuroshio Extension, which corresponds to the branching of the recirculating flow from the Kuroshio Extension. 相似文献
3.
Recent observations suggest that the annual mean southward transport of the East Sakhalin Current (ESC) is significantly larger
than the annual mean Sverdrup transport. Motivated by this observational result, transport of a western boundary current has
been investigated using a simple numerical model with a western slope. This transport is defined as the instantaneous barotropic
transport integrated from the western boundary to the offshore point where the barotropic velocity vanishes. The model, forced
by seasonally varying wind stress, exhibits an annual mean of the western boundary current transport that is larger than that
of the Sverdrup transport, as observed. The southward transport from October to March in the model nearly equals the instantaneous
Sverdrup transport, while the southward transport from April to September decreases slowly. Although the Sverdrup transport
in July vanishes, the southward transport in summer nearly maintains the annual mean Sverdrup transport, because the barotropic
Rossby wave cannot intrude on the western slope. This summer transport causes the larger annual mean. Although there are some
uncertainties in the estimation of the Sverdrup transport in the Sea of Okhotsk, the seasonal variation of the southward transport
in the model is qualitatively similar to the observations. 相似文献
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Masachika Masujima Ichiro Yasuda Yutaka Hiroe Tomowo Watanabe 《Journal of Oceanography》2003,59(6):855-869
Oyashio water flowing into the Mixed Water Region (MWR) and the Kuroshio Extension region that forms North Pacific Intermediate
Water (NPIW) has been examined, based on four Conductivity-Temperature-Depth profiler (CTD)/Lowered Acoustic Doppler Current
Profiler (L-ADCP) surveys of water masses and ocean currents. There are two processes by which the Oyashio water intrudes
across the Subarctic Front (SAF): one is a direct cross-nearshore-SAF transport near Hokkaido along the western boundary,
and the other is a cross-offshore-SAF process. Seasonal variations were observed in the former process, and the transport
of the Oyashio water across SAF near Hokkaido in the density range of 26.6–27.4σθ was 5–10 Sv in spring 1998 and 2001, and 0–4 Sv in autumn 2000, mainly corresponding to the change of the southwestward Oyashio
transport. Through the latter process, 5–6 Sv of the Oyashio water was entrained across the offshore SAF from south of Hokkaido
to 150° in both spring 2001 and autumn 2000. The total cross-SAF Oyashio water transport contributing to NPIW formation is
more than 10 Sv, which is larger than previously reported values. Most of the Oyashio water formed through the former process
was transported southeastward through the Kuroshio Extension. It is suggested that the Oyashio intrusion via the latter process
feeds NPIW in the northern part of the MWR, mainly along the Subarctic Boundary and SAF.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
5.
Horizontal and meridional volume transports on timescales from intra-seasonal to interannual in the North Pacific subarctic
region were investigated using a reanalysis dataset for 1993–2001 that was constructed from an assimilation of the TOPEX altimeter
and in situ data into an eddy-permitting North Pacific ocean general circulation model. The barotropic flow is excited along east of
the Emperor Seamounts by the western intensification dynamics. The volume transport of this flow compensates for that across
the interior region east of the Seamounts below the summit depth of the Seamounts. The Oyashio, which is also considered as
a compensation flow for the transport in the whole interior region, includes baroclinic as well as barotropic components.
Baroclinic transports in the whole interior region exceed those in the western boundary region in the upper (200–1000 m) and
lower (2000–5000 m) layers, and the total transport is northward (southward) in the upper (lower) layer. These excesses of
the baroclinic transport are balanced by a vertical transport of the meridional overturn. The meridional overturn has a complementary
relation to the basin-scale baroclinic circulation in the North Pacific subactic region.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
6.
Ana Luisa Rosa Yutaka Isoda Kazuyuki Uehara Tomokazu Aiki 《Journal of Oceanography》2007,63(4):573-588
Hydrographic data and composite current velocity data (ADCP and GEK) were used to examine the seasonal variations of upper-ocean
flow in the southern sea area of Hokkaido, which includes the “off-Doto” and “Hidaka Bay” areas separated by Cape Erimo. During
the heating season (April–September), the outflow of the Tsugaru Warm Current (TWC) from the Tsugaru Strait first extends
north-eastward, and then one branch of TWC turns to the west along the shelf slope after it approaches the Hidaka Shelf. The
main flow of TWC evolves continuously, extending eastward as far as the area off Cape Erimo. In the late cooling season (January–March),
part of the Oyashio enters Hidaka Bay along the shallower part of the shelf slope through the area off Cape Erimo, replacing
almost all of the TWC water, and hence the TWC devolves. It is suggested that the bottom-controlled barotropic flow of the
Oyashio, which may be caused by the small density difference between the Oyashio and the TWC waters and the southward migration
of main front of TWC, permits the Oyashio water to intrude along the Hidaka shelf slope. 相似文献
7.
In order to understand the actual formation process of the North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW), structure of subsurface intrusions of the Oyashio water and the mixing of the Oyashio and the Kuroshio waters in and around the Kuroshio Extension (KE) were examined on the basis of a synoptic CTD observation carried out in May-June 1992. The fresh Oyashio water in the south of Hokkaido was transported into KE region through the Mixed Water Region (MWR) in the form of subsurface intrusions along two main paths. The one was along the east coast of northern Japan through the First Branch of the Oyashio (FBO) and the other along the eastern face of a warm streamer which connected KE with a warm core ring through the Second Branch of the Oyashio (SBO). The fresh Oyashio water extended southward through FBO strongly mixed with the saline NPIW transported by the Kuroshio in the south of Japan (old NPIW) in and around the warm streamer. On the other hand, the one through SBO well preserved its original properties and extended eastward beyond 150°E along KE with a form of rather narrow band. The intrusion ejected Oyashio water lens with a diameter of 50–60 km southward across KE axis and split northward into the MWR involved in the interaction of KE and a warm core ring, which were supposed to be primary processes of new NPIW formation. 相似文献
8.
Since the Intermediate Oyashio Water (IOW) gradually accumulates in Sagami Bay, it can reasonably be supposed that the IOW
also flows out from Sagami Bay, even though it may be altered by mixing with other waters. We have occasionally observed a
water less than 34.2 psu with a potential density of 26.8 at the southeastern area off Izu Peninsula in July 1993 by the training
vessel Seisui-maru of Mie University. Observational data supplied by the Japan Meteorological Agency and the Kanagawa Prefectural
Fisheries Experimental Station show that the IOW of less than 34.1 psu was observed at northern stations of the line PT (KJ)
off the Boso Peninsula and to the east of Oshima in the late spring 1993. Based upon these observations, it is concluded that
the IOW flows out from Sagami Bay into the Shikoku Basin along southeastern area off the Izu Peninsula. The less saline water
(<34.2 psu) was also observed to the west of Miyake-jima during the same cruise, and the westward intrusion of IOW from south
of the Boso Peninsula to the Shikoku Basin through the gate area of the Kuroshio path over the Izu Ridge was detected. This
event indicated that the IOW branched south of the Boso Peninsula and flowed into Sagami Bay and/or into the gate area over
the Izu Ridge. The southward intrusion of IOW into the south of the Boso Peninsula is discussed in relation to the latitudinal
location of the main axes of the Kuroshio and the Oyashio.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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利用正压涡度方程,研究了缓变风场驱动下水平尺度1000km平底方形海盆中海洋环流的响应。结果表明,缓变风场驱动下海洋环流的响应是多涡型的,线性情形下多涡结构表现为共振受迫Rossby波;非线性情形下受迫Rossby波被扭曲,多涡结构是由受迫Rossby波和次海盆尺度的惯性再循环共同构成。无论是稳定风场还是缓变风场,非线性作用越强,环流越趋于不稳定;非线性作用强且水平耗散作用弱时,非线性不稳定过程可能完全掩盖了变化的风旋度向海盆涡度输人的影响,此时风的变化对环流型式不再重要。 相似文献
10.
We have examined wind-induced circulation in the Sea of Okhotsk using a barotropic model that contains realistic topography
with a resolution of 9.25 km. The monthly wind stress field calculated from daily European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasting (ECMWF) Re-Analysis data is used as the forcing, and the integration is carried out for 20 days until the circulation
attains an almost steady state. In the case of November (a representative for the winter season from October to March), southward
currents of velocity 0.1–0.3 m s−1 occur along the bottom contours off the east of Sakhalin Island. The currents are mostly confined to the shelf (shallower
than 200 m) and extend as far south as the Hokkaido coast. In the July case (a representative for the summer season from April
to September), significant currents do not occur, even in the shallow shelves. The simulated southward current over the east
Sakhalin shelf appears to correspond to the near-shore branch of the East Sakhalin Current (ESC), which was observed with
the surface drifters. These seasonal variations simulated in our experiments are consistent with the observations of the ESC.
Dynamically, the simulated ESC is interpreted as the arrested topographic wave (ATW), which is the coastally trapped flow
driven by steady alongshore wind stress. The volume transport of the simulated ESC over the shelf reaches about 1.0 Sv (1
Sv = 106 m3s−1) in the winter season, which is determined by the integrated onshore Ekman transport in the direction from which shelf waves
propagate.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
11.
Nobuo Suginohara 《Journal of Oceanography》1977,33(3):115-130
A two-cell circulation associated with a front observed in coastal upwelling regions is studied numerically in a three-dimensional level model. An ocean with a flat bottom is forced by the wind stress with a longshore variation. Upwelling is induced in the region next to the coast. In association with the upwelling, the pycnocline slopes up toward the coast and intersects the sea surface forming a front. After that, downwelling is induced just inshore-side of the front and upwelling offshore-side. The transverse circulation in the present model seems to reproduce the observed two-cell circulation. It is found that the generation of the two-cell circulation is due to deviations of the longshore flow from the thermal-wind relation (geostrophy). The deviations are caused by the onshore-offshore movements of the front. Although no vorticity input through the wind stress is assumed, several barotropic vortices are induced by the effect of the inclination of the pycnocline and grow as long as the winds continue to blow. The observed poleward undercurrent may be interpreted as a combination of motions of the internal mode associated with the front and a barotropic flow associated with a cyclonic vortex. 相似文献
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Propagation of Rossby Waves over Ridges Excited by Interannual Wind Forcing in a Western North Pacific Model 总被引:1,自引:4,他引:1
Numerical experiments with a multi-level general circulation model have been performed to investigate basic processes of westward
propagation of Rossby waves excited by interannual wind stress forcing in an idealized western North Pacific model with ocean
ridges. When the wind forcing with an oscillation period of 3 years is imposed around 180°E and 30°N, far from Japan, barotropic
waves excited by the wind can hardly cross the ridges, such as the Izu-Ogasawara Ridge. On the other hand, a large part of
the first-mode baroclinic waves are transmitted across the ridges, having net mass transport. The propagation speed of the
first-mode baroclinic wave is accelerated (decelerated) when an anticyclonic (cyclonic) circulation is formed at the sea surface,
due to a deeper (shallower) upper layer, and to southward (slightly northward) drift of the circulation. Thus, when the anticyclonic
circulation is formed on the northern side of the cyclonic one, they propagate almost together. The second-mode baroclinic
waves converted from the first-mode ones on the ridges arrive south of Japan, although their effects are small. The resulting
volume transport variation of the western boundary current (the Kuroshio) reaches about 60% of the Sverdrup transport variability
estimated from the wind stress. These characteristics are common for the interannual forcing case with a longer oscillation
period. In the intraseasonal and seasonal forcing cases, on the other hand, the transport variation is much smaller than those
in the interannual forcing cases.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
13.
Water mass variability in the western North Pacific detected in a 15-year eddy resolving ocean reanalysis 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Yasumasa Miyazawa Ruochao Zhang Xinyu Guo Hitoshi Tamura Daisuke Ambe Joon-Soo Lee Akira Okuno Hiroshi Yoshinari Takashi Setou Kosei Komatsu 《Journal of Oceanography》2009,65(6):737-756
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Daisuke Takahashi Hikaru Endo Yuki Minegishi Yasushi Gomi Kenji Kaneko 《Journal of Oceanography》2018,74(1):81-100
Flow fields in Shizugawa Bay on the Sanriku ria coast, which faces the Pacific Ocean, were investigated using hydrographic observations for the purpose of understanding oceanographic conditions and the process of water exchanges in the bay after the 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku. In spring to summer, density-driven surface outflow is part of estuarine circulation and is induced by a pressure gradient force under larger longitudinal gradients in density along with lower salinity water in the innermost part of the bay, regardless of wind forcing. In winter to summer, another density-driven current with a thermal structure is induced by a pressure gradient force under the smaller longitudinal density gradients in calm wind conditions. Particularly in winter, Tsugaru Warm Current water can be transported in the surface layer inside the bay. Wind-driven bay-scale circulation with downwind and upwind currents in the surface and deeper layers, respectively, is induced by strong longitudinal wind forcing under the smaller longitudinal density gradients, irrespective of season. Particularly in fall to spring, this circulation can cause the intrusions of oceanic water associated with Oyashio water and Tsugaru Warm Current water in the deeper layer. These results suggest that wind- and density-driven currents can produce the active exchange of water from inside and outside the bay throughout the year. 相似文献
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The three-dimensional structure and the seasonal variation of the North Pacific meridional overturning circulation (NPMOC) are analyzed based on the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation data and Argo profiling float data.The NPMOC displays a multi-cell structure with four cells in the North Pacific altogether.The TC and the STC are a strong clockwise meridional cell in the low latitude ocean and a weaker clockwise meridional cell between 7°N and 18°N,respectively, while the DTC and the subpolar cell are a weaker ... 相似文献
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Hiroshi Kuroda Yutaka Isoda Hidetaka Takeoka Satoshi Honda 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(5):731-744
In order to examine seasonal variation in a coastal current and the dynamics of the current, we carried out a mooring current
measurement near the coast on the eastern shelf of Hidaka Bay from December 2002 to July 2003. There seemed to be two current
regimes during the observed period; one a southeastward current from December to March, and the other a northwestward current
after April. Arrested topographic wave dynamics was used to understand along-shore steady momentum balance at the mooring
site. It was found that the friction term was negligible during the former regime, that is, the wind stress term roughly counterbalanced
the pressure gradient term. On the other hand, the contribution of each term to the momentum balance was sensitive to the
resistance coefficient value during the latter regime. A numerical study showed that wind forcing alone could not reproduce
the observed current velocity and momentum balance during the former regime. One possible interpretation of the observed results
is superposition of the arrested topographic waves forced by the along-shore wind stress and downstream extension of the Coastal
Oyashio. Numerical experiments using combined forcing of the wind stress and an inflow associated with the Coastal Oyashio
supported the expected dynamics. 相似文献
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The surface circulation of northern South China Sea (hereafter SCS) for the period 1987–2005 was studied using the data of
more than 500 satellite-tracked drifters and wind data from QuikSCAT. The mean flow directions in the northern SCS except
the Luzon Strait (hereafter LS) during the periods October~March was southwestward, and April~September northeastward. A strong
northwestward intrusion of the Kuroshio through the LS appears during the October~March period of northeasterly wind, but
the intrusion became weak between April and September. When the strong intrusion occurred, the eddy kinetic energy (EKE) in
the LS was 388 cm2/s2 which was almost 2 times higher than that during the weak-intrusion season. The volume transport of the Kuroshio in the east
of the Philippines shows an inverse relationship to that of the LS. There is a six-month phase shift between the two seasonal
phenomena. The volume transport in the east of the Philippines shows its peak sis-month earlier faster than that of the LS.
The strong Kuroshio intrusion is found to be also related to the seasonal variation of the wind stress curl generated by the
northeasterly wind. The negative wind stress curl in the northern part of LS induces an anticyclonic flow, while the positive
wind stress curl in the southern part of LS induces a cyclonic flow. The northwestward Kuroshio intrusion in the northern
part of LS happened with larger negative wind stress curl, while the westward intrusion along 20.5°N in the center of the
LS occurred with weaker negative wind stress curl. 相似文献
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Currents in the Taiwan Strait as observed by surface drifters 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Yun Qiu Li Li Chen-Tung Arthur Chen Xiaogang Guo Chunsheng Jing 《Journal of Oceanography》2011,67(4):395-404
The trajectories of 110 satellite-tracked surface drifters from 1989 to 2007 were analyzed to elucidate near-surface circulation
in the Taiwan Strait. Although the summer circulation observed generally agrees with previous studies, several aspects of
the winter circulation were revealed by the analyses. Unlike many earlier studies, which have suggested that a northward (southward)
current prevails in the eastern (western) part of the Taiwan Strait during the northeast monsoon season, this study shows
that almost all winter drifters that entered the Taiwan Strait eventually moved southward. Inside the Taiwan Strait, northward
moving tracks can only be found in the Penghu Channel. After passing the Penghu Channel, the drifters were blocked by the
northeast monsoon wind and the Yun-Chang Rise, and turned southward. None of the drifters flowed persistently northward through
the Taiwan Strait in winter. In the southern Taiwan Strait, three typical patterns of circulation were observed for the winter
trajectories—the “throughflow” pattern that enters the South China Sea flowing westward along the slope; the loop current
pattern that circulates anticyclonically and returns to the Kuroshio; and the blocked intrusion pattern that penetrates into
the Taiwan Strait through the Penghu Channel. 相似文献
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The physical mechanism by which seasonally varying atmospheric wind stress exerted on the sea surface is communicated to the solid earth as oceanic pressure torque (continental torque) and bottom frictional torque is investigated with a linear shallow‐water numerical model of barotropic oceans. The model has a realistic land–ocean distribution and is driven by a seasonally varying climatic wind stress. A novel way to decompose the wind stress into rotational and non‐rotational components is devised. The rotational component drives ocean circulations as classical theories of wind‐driven circulations demonstrate. The non‐rotational component does not produce ocean circulations within the framework of a barotropic shallow‐water model, but balances with the pressure gradient force due to surface displacement in the steady state. Based on this decomposition, it is shown that most of the continental torque which plays a major role in producing the seasonal variation of length of day (LOD) is caused by the non‐rotational component of the wind stress. Both continental torque due to the wind‐driven circulation produced by the rotational component of the wind stress and the bottom frictional torque are of minor importance. 相似文献
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利用50 a的SODA资料对1月(冬季)和7月(夏季)印度洋越赤道经向翻转环流的年际变化进行研究。通过对2类典型年份的合成分析指出:1月份正异常年对应的经向翻转环流偏强,向北的经向热输送增加;7月份正异常年对应的经向翻转环流则偏弱,向南的经向热输送减少;1月份和7月份的负异常年皆与其正异常年相反;越赤道经向翻转环流有明显的年际变化,平均周期在4 a左右;经向翻转环流的年际变化和海面风场的变化密切相关。提出了反映1月和7月此环流年际变化的几个指数。 相似文献