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Estimates of the rate of dissipation of turbulent energy,?v, were made on the continental shelf off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island throughout the diurnal tidal cycle at six stations. If turbulent mixing takes place away from boundaries, and a constant fraction of the energy supplied to turbulence is converted into potential energy, this dissipation rate per unit volume, ?v, is shown to be proportional to the rate of turbulent mass and nutrient flux across the isopycnals.

We compute these fluxes to determine the source of nutrients in the upper mixed layer on the shelf. It is found that tidal mixing on the shelf throughout the water column contributes less than 10% of the flux of nutrients supplied by the estuarine outflow out of Juan de Fuca Strait. Strong winds during upwelling events supply nutrients at rates greater than those due to tidal mixing, but at rates that are likely smaller than the Juan de Fuca source. Therefore, the nutrient‐rich waters observed in the euphotic zone in spring and summer on this shelf derive mainly from Juan de Fuca Strait. Nutrients in bottom water derive from upwelling along shelf‐break canyons.  相似文献   

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In summer, the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (YSCWM) is a stable water mass of low temperature lying at the bottom of the central Yellow Sea (YS). It is fringed by some typical tidal fronts, which separate deep, stratified water on the offshore side from the well-mixed, shallow water on the inshore side. Three striking fronts--Subei Bank Front (SBF), Shandong Peninsula Front (SPF), and Mokpo Front (MKF; a front off the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula)--have been iden- tified by various studies from both satellite observations and model results. Tide plays an important role in the formation and maintenance of these fronts. However, it is still a matter of debate as to the roles these two kinds of mechanisms of upwelling and tidal mixing play, and how importance they are in the maintenance processes of the above three fronts. Basing a nested high-resolution model HYCOM (the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model), this study focuses on the different mechanisms of tidal effects on the thermal fronts in the YS in summertime. Through comparative experiments with and without tidal forcing, the results indicate that the MKF is mainly driven by tide-induced upwelling. For the SPF, tidal mixing is the dominant factor, when lower cold water is stirred upwards along the sloping topography of the western YS. Meanwhile, the combined effect of upwelling and tidal mixing is the main cause of the formation of the SBF. Diagnostic analysis of thermal balance shows that horizontal nonlinear advection induced by strong tidal currents also contributes to the thermal balance of frontal areas.  相似文献   

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The effect of idealized wind-driven circulation changes in the Southern Ocean on atmospheric CO2 and the ocean carbon inventory is investigated using a suite of coarse-resolution, global coupled ocean circulation and biogeochemistry experiments with parameterized eddy activity and only modest changes in surface buoyancy forcing, each experiment integrated for 5,000 years. A positive correlation is obtained between the meridional overturning or residual circulation in the Southern Ocean and atmospheric CO2: stronger or northward-shifted westerly winds in the Southern Hemisphere result in increased residual circulation, greater upwelling of carbon-rich deep waters and oceanic outgassing, which increases atmospheric pCO2 by ~20 μatm; weaker or southward-shifted winds lead to the opposing result. The ocean carbon inventory in our model varies through contrasting changes in the saturated, disequilibrium and biogenic (soft-tissue and carbonate) reservoirs, each varying by O(10–100) PgC, all of which contribute to the net anomaly in atmospheric CO2. Increased residual overturning deepens the global pycnocline, warming the upper ocean and decreasing the saturated carbon reservoir. Increased upwelling of carbon- and nutrient-rich deep waters and inefficient biological activity results in subduction of unutilized nutrients into the ocean interior, decreasing the biogenic carbon reservoir of intermediate and mode waters ventilating the Northern Hemisphere, and making the disequilibrium carbon reservoir more positive in the mode waters due to the reduced residence time at the surface. Wind-induced changes in the model carbon inventory are dominated by the response of the global pycnocline, although there is an additional abyssal response when the peak westerly winds change their latitude, altering their proximity to Drake Passage and changing the depth extent of the southward return flow of the overturning: a northward shift of the westerly winds isolates dense isopycnals, allowing biogenic carbon to accumulate in the deep ocean of the Southern Hemisphere, while a southward shift shoals dense isopycnals that outcrop in the Southern Ocean and reduces the biogenic carbon store in the deep ocean.  相似文献   

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Observations of a front associated with boundary layer separation from a headland illustrate a mechanism by which horizontal density gradients create intense turbulence and vertical mixing, thus, contributing to water property modification in the coastal zone. Tidal current past an island separates from the coast, creating a shear zone between the primary flow and the slowly moving water in the lee of the island. The density structure on either side of the front may differ due to different origins or degrees of prior mixing. Consequently, there can be horizontal density gradients across the front. Boundary layer separation from the headland begins as a vertical vortex sheet on which instabilities grow to form a sequence of eddies. The presence of horizontal density gradients causes the shear layer to tilt. Tilting and stretching of the sheared flow generates intense circulation. Whirlpools and boils appear at the surface accompanied by vertical motions in which broad areas of upwelling alternate with narrow areas of downwelling. These mix the water throughout its depth; bubbles entrained at the surface reach depths of over 120 m. Such violent mixing weakens stratification associated with the estuarine circulation and aerates water masses passing through the area.  相似文献   

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张苏平  王媛  衣立  刘海坤  王倩 《大气科学》2017,41(2):227-235
由于缺乏海上现场观测,对天气尺度扰动下,海表面温度锋 (海洋锋) 对海洋大气边界层 (MABL) 垂直结构和MABL内海洋性低云 (marine stratus) 的影响研究较少。2014年4月12日,中国海洋大学东方红2号科学考察船在黑潮延伸体海区的海洋锋附近捕捉到一次层积云的迅速发展。在比较稳定的天气形势下,由暖水侧向北穿越海洋锋时,云底和云顶高度升高,云区范围迅速扩大。本文利用多种大气-海洋联合观测数据,结合卫星观测和再分析资料,对此次层积云迅速发展的机理进行了综合分析。结果表明,在海上低压后部西北风控制下,在海洋锋的暖水侧 (下风方) 形成热通量大值中心和低压槽,有助于高空西风动量下传,进而又使得海气界面热通量增加,这种正反馈效应为MABL内混合层厚度加大和云底/顶高度在海洋锋的下风方升高提供有利背景条件。4月12日09:00~12:00(协调世界时),来自日本本州岛陆地的低空暖平流到达该热通量中心上空,暖平流与热通量中心的共同作用,导致该时段近海面暖中心强度异常增加,MABL中静力不稳定层加深和低压槽发展,综合作用的结果使得混合层厚度明显加深,云底高度升高,云区迅速发展。本研究有助于理解在复杂大气背景扰动下MABL对海洋强迫的响应机理。  相似文献   

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黄海夏季潮汐锋区环流的数值研究   总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6  
基于Blumberg&Mellor三维非线性环流模型(ECOM)并结合Mellor&Yamada的湍封闭模型,对黄海M2分潮、密度环流、锋区环流等进行了的数值模拟:潮汐模拟结果较好的体现了黄、渤海M2潮波传播系统,验证了模型的可行性;模拟密度环流的量阶和方向均与夏季实测环流保持一致,体现了密度环流是夏季总环流的重要组成部分;两个断面锋区环流的模拟结果显示锋区位置不同环流特征也不相同,锋区对应的上升流特征与锋区表面通常观测到冷水现象吻合,锋区上层水体沿潮汐锋方向流速较强。另外,数值试验结果显示了地形和潮混合对潮汐锋的形成及锋区环流有重要影响。  相似文献   

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1. IntroductionDuring June and July, from the mid-lower reachesof the Yangtze River basin in China to southern Japan,a precipitation zone with intensive torrential rain ap-pears and lasts for two to three weeks. This phe-nomenon is called the "mei-yu" in …  相似文献   

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To examine the correlation between the sizes of sea breeze fronts and pollutants under the influence of synoptic fields, a numerical simulation was conducted in the southeast coastal area of the Korean Peninsula, where relatively high concentrations of pollutants occur because of the presence of various kinds of industrial developments. Sea breeze and sea breeze front days during the period 2005-09 were identified using wind profiler data and, according to the results, the number of days were 72 and 53, respectively. When synoptic forcing was weak, sea breeze fronts moved fast both in horizontal fields and in terms of wind velocity, while in the case of strong synoptic forcing, sea breeze fronts remained at the coast or moved slowly due to strong opposing flows. In this case, the sea breeze front development function and horizontal potential temperature difference were larger than with weak synoptic forcing. The ozone concentration that moves together with sea breeze fronts was also formed along the frontal surfaces. Ozone advection and diffusion in the case of strong synoptic forcing was suppressed at the frontal surface and the concentration gradient was large. The vertical distribution of ozone was very low due to the Thermal Internal Boundary Layer (TIBL) being low.  相似文献   

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谈哲敏  伍荣生 《气象学报》2000,58(3):265-277
利用一个有地形、边界层摩擦作用、简化的二层浅水锋面模型,在理论上研究了地形上空边界层流动中地面暖锋的结构及环流分布特征问题。暖锋的坡度主要取决于其暖域地转流、锋面移速,它随锋面移速增大而减小,这与冷锋特征相反。地形对暖锋坡度的影响作用较小。与无地形作用时相比,静止性暖锋冷域中,位于锋面界面附近的闭合正环流系,当暖锋位于地形上游,其伸展范围增大;当暖锋位于迎风坡时,其伸展范围缩小,中心位置上抬;锋面移至背风坡时,其伸展范围重新增大。对于冷域中远离地面暖锋的另一支正环流系来说,当暖锋位于地形上游或迎风坡时,它可被地形完全阻塞于背风侧,地形高度越高,地形阻塞作用越大。在暖锋锋区附近主要存在三支垂直上升运动带:(a)由于边界层摩擦辐合作用,导致在地面暖锋后缘暖区中形成一支水平尺度较小、强度较大的垂直运动带,它随着暖锋移速增大而减弱。该垂直运动带,当暖锋位于地形迎风侧,强度增加;暖锋位于地形背风侧,其强度减弱。(b)在锋区暖域沿锋面存在均匀的上升运动,(c)在冷域远离地面暖锋处,存在一支水平范围较宽,其中心位于边界层顶部附近的垂直运动带,当暖锋位于迎风坡时,这支垂直运动带可被地形阻塞于地形背风侧。  相似文献   

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Abstract

The Barents Sea is divided into a northern and a southern part by the Polar Front (at about 75–76° N) where Atlantic waters descend under Arctic waters. Near to and north of the Polar Front, the spring bloom of phytoplankton is triggered by the stability induced in the upper 20 m by the melting of ice. The pycnocline is too strong to be eroded by wind. Primary productivity after the bloom is therefore small and largely regenerative. Underneath the pycnocline there is a 3–5 m thick layer characterized by dense, slow‐growing algal populations. New productivity north of the Polar Front is no more than 40 g C m?2 a?1.

In permanently open waters south of the Polar Front, the spring bloom starts in early May. Rhythmic wind‐induced mixing related to the atmospheric low‐pressure belt reaches an average 40–60 m depth in the growth season, and secondary phytoplankton maxima may arise. As a result, new annual productivity is more than doubled, i.e. 90 g C m?2 a?1, relative to the same system without wind. Although productivity is highest south of the Polar Front, it is more concentrated north of it, in the sense that high new production is mainly related to a 20–50 km wide belt that sweeps the area following the ice edge northwards while the ice melts through the summer.  相似文献   

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吕克利  农尚尧 《大气科学》1995,19(2):183-191
本文利用半地转模式,讨论了双冷锋的锋生过程及其越过山脉的演变。结果显示,在变形场作用下,双冷锋在移行过程中会发生上层锋合并的现象。在锋生过程中,下层前一条冷锋加强远大于后一条,在上层则是后一条冷锋的加强远大于前一条。地形对双冷锋有重大影响,山的迎风坡对冷锋移行有阻挡作用,并削弱锋的强度,背风坡则加速锋的移行,并加强锋的强度。山对双冷锋的上层锋的合并有促进作用,并造成近地面锋区呈现鼻状突出;地形促使锋区垂直速度大大增大,并导致其产生跳跃式变化;地形对锋的影响限于下层锋区。  相似文献   

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山东省春秋季暴雨天气的环流特征和形成机制初探   总被引:7,自引:2,他引:7       下载免费PDF全文
对山东省春秋季暴雨的气候特征和影响系统进行了分析, 制作了春秋季暴雨的平均环流形势图。分析了2003年春秋季两次大范围暴雨的环流特征和影响系统及暴雨期间大气的热力特征和水汽输送特征, 应用k-螺旋度和倾斜涡度发展理论, 分析了暴雨的形成机制。结果表明:4月暴雨均受气旋影响, 10月暴雨以冷锋影响居多。2003年4月17—18日为气旋暴雨, 10月10—12日为切变线冷锋暴雨。两次暴雨前都有低空偏南风急流向暴雨区输送水汽, 大气强烈增温增湿, 对流不稳定度增大, 湿斜压性增强。强冷锋南下触发对流不稳定能量释放, 产生暴雨。暴雨期间低层正k-螺旋度猛烈发展。暴雨前期中低层MPV1 < 0且MPV2 > 0, 冷锋影响期间MPV1 > 0且MPV2 < 0, 都有利于倾斜涡度发展, 增强了上升运动。  相似文献   

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上海地区移动型雷暴阵风锋特征统计分析   总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2  
陶岚  戴建华  李佰平  陈雷 《气象》2016,42(10):1197-1212
文章利用常规天气资料、双多普勒雷达资料、GFS 3 km分辨率分析场资料以及地面自动站资料等,统计分析了上海地区2009-2014年共18次移动型雷暴产生的阵风锋的个例,包括天气背景、温湿环境特征以及阵风锋在雷达图上的特征等。根据阵风锋生成的时段以及与其母体雷暴的相互作用和影响,将移动型雷暴产生的阵风锋分为两类:(1)一类出现在雷暴发展、成熟阶段,阵风锋通常与雷暴保持一定的距离同向运动,出现阵风锋的雷暴主体通常伴有高悬的后侧人流急流,生命史长达2h以上;(2)另一类出现在雷暴的减弱消亡阶段,出现后即逐渐远离雷暴,出现阵风锋的雷暴主体通常伴有从雷暴系统后侧倾斜向下正好到达雷暴前侧阵风锋处的后侧人流急流。阵风锋出现后,逐渐远离雷暴运动,大部分阵风锋(12个个例)出现在雷暴移动方向的前侧,与雷暴移动同向,少数阵风锋(4个个例)出现在雷暴移动方向的异侧,与雷暴移动不同向。统计分析结果表明:第一类阵风锋一方面与雷暴同向移动,不断将其前侧低层的暖湿空气抬升,并沿着阵风锋输送到雷暴中去;另一方面,由于较强的垂直风切变和较强的对流有效位能对后侧人流急流高度的维持起到了关键作用,高悬的后侧人流急流和垂直风切变共同产生的正涡度和冷池产生的负涡度平衡,有利于维持雷暴的发展传播。因此,阵风锋后侧的雷暴持续稳定的发展,并在其后侧可观测到雷暴的新生。第二类阵风锋生成后即逐渐远离雷暴主体,仅以孤立波的形式传播,受经过的环境的影响,其后侧的干冷气流的性质逐渐减弱。与雷暴同向运动的阵风锋切断了暖湿气流向雷暴的输送,不利于雷暴的发展;同时在弱-中等切变和弱-中等对流有效位能的环境中,从雷暴后侧向前侧倾斜向下的后侧人流急流和冷池共同产生的负涡度强于垂直风切变产生的正涡度,强冷池前沿的上升气流向后倾斜,不利于新对流单体的发展,雷暴大都在阵风锋出现2h内消亡。  相似文献   

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梁钊明  高守亭  王东海  王彦 《大气科学》2013,37(5):1013-1024
海风锋与沿海强对流天气密切相关,而城市化发展对沿海地区下垫面的改变会对海风锋特征产生影响。鉴于此,本文利用耦合了新一代城市物理方案UCP-BEM(Urban Canopy Parameterization-Building Energy Model)的WRF(Weather Research and Forecasting)模式开展数值试验分析了城市下垫面对渤海湾海风锋特征的影响。结果显示:城市下垫面高粗糙度对低层海风风速的明显削弱造成海风锋往内陆推进距离稍减,低层辐合和上升运动减弱;城市下垫面较大的向上感热通量和较小的向上水汽通量以及高粗糙度对海风的削弱的共同作用造成冷湿海风对低层大气的降温和增湿幅度减弱;高粗糙度的城市下垫面对海风环流的摩擦力效应使得海风得到抬升,这导致了冷湿海风对低层大气的降温和增湿的垂直范围得到提升;受这些结果影响,海风锋背后低层有效位能减小,但垂直分布范围扩大,从而造成对流抑制高值区抬升,同时海风锋背后的静力不稳定区变厚,其上面的动力不稳定区则变薄,但不稳定区总厚度基本不变。  相似文献   

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The analysis of surface ozone variability requires besides chemicalstudies the consideration of meteorological conditions and dynamicprocesses. Our research focuses on the mechanisms in connection with coldfront passages. A statistical study and case studies of cold front passageswere carried out at six German ground-based sites during the year 1990.After the passage of cold fronts three typical developments of thenear-ground ozone concentrations could be identified. Usually the ozoneconcentrations decrease due to advection of clean air masses or due toenhanced cloudiness preventing the photochemical production of ozone,chemical destruction by nitrogenoxides, and heterogeneous chemistry. In somecases the concentrations increased by reason of downward mixing of ozoneenriched air intruded from the stratosphere into the troposphere bytropopause foldings. For a few cases no modification set in. The decreasewas mostly twice as strong as the increase. The latter was between 4 and 8ppb on the average. Special emphasis is given to the transport ofstratospheric ozone down to the ground. There is no direct evidence forstratospheric ozone at ground level, because it cant be distinguished fromthe tropospheric one, but from case studies circumstantial evidence is foundin favour of it. As an example of increasing ozone behind the passage ofcold fronts one case study typical of all other case studies is presented.It shows the characteristic properties of the corresponding fronts, whichare fast movement, a vertical split structure and strong convection.  相似文献   

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During the summer, a northward, wind-driven current dominates the Rottnest Island region in southwestern Australia. Field studies have shown that the interaction between Rottnest Island and the northward current generates upwelling at the western end of the island, which is advected downstream, resulting in isotherm doming in the wake region. Flow curvature-induced secondary circulation has been proposed as the dominant mechanism responsible for this upwelling. Here, a three-dimensional numerical model, together with field observations, was used to undertake a detailed investigation of the three-dimensional flow structure in the wake region. Comparison of the observed upwelling pattern and the simulated flows revealed the island's dominant role in generating upwelling. This result was confirmed with the use of idealized numerical experiments. The modeling results confirmed the presence of secondary circulation, generated as a result of flow curvature at the western end of the island, which caused strong upwelling and extended downstream.  相似文献   

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Boundary layer structure in two fronts passing a tower   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
Summary The atmospheric boundary layer in an ana-cold front and in a kata-cold front is investigated using measurements at a 200 m high tower near Karlsruhe, Germany. In the ana-cold front the wind speed decreased, whereas the passage of the kata-cold front was accompanied by strong gusts. The frontogenesis function of potential temperature was only weak. Turbulence increased at the fronts as expressed by the turbulent kinetic energy. However, the turbulent vertical momentum flux was relatively inefficient at the passage of the fronts. Also it is attempted to calculated flux profiles and friction in the cold air.With 15 Figures  相似文献   

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The horizontal shape of the front between two water masses, which subcritically approach each other from different sides of a wedge of land, is considered using a simple model. It is shown that the angle of the wedge of land is critical to the behaviour of the solution and that for a finite Bernoulli head difference between the flows, no solution exists if the angle is greater than or equal to π. As the relative energy content of the flows changes, the model predicts an interesting discontinuity in the behaviour of the angle at which the front leaves the wedge. This theory is used to illustrate the behaviour at the front between the water masses of the Flores Sea and the Makasar Strait. It is shown that the observed upwelling in the region (June to August) is the result of a subsurface high pressure system established by the front. The detailed structure of the upwelling region is dependent on the Bernoulli head difference across the front in both the surface and subsurface water.  相似文献   

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During the summer, a northward, wind-driven current dominates the Rottnest Island region in southwestern Australia. Field studies have shown that the interaction between Rottnest Island and the northward current generates upwelling at the western end of the island, which is advected downstream, resulting in isotherm doming in the wake region. Flow curvature-induced secondary circulation has been proposed as the dominant mechanism responsible for this upwelling. Here, a three-dimensional numerical model, together with field observations, was used to undertake a detailed investigation of the three-dimensional flow structure in the wake region. Comparison of the observed upwelling pattern and the simulated flows revealed the island's dominant role in generating upwelling. This result was confirmed with the use of idealized numerical experiments. The modeling results confirmed the presence of secondary circulation, generated as a result of flow curvature at the western end of the island, which caused strong upwelling and extended downstream.  相似文献   

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An investigation has been made of the structure of sea-breeze fronts observed at Thumba mostly during the months of December to April using data from a Doppler SODAR and in situ measurements of wind components, humidity and temperature. The study shows that the vertical wind structure observed in the SODAR height range provides a distinct signature of the passage of a front and that the intensity of the front is decided by the intensity and direction of the prevailing winds as well as the amount of rotation of the wind vector during the onset of the sea-breeze. Spectral analyses of vertical winds during the passage of the front reveal a dominant periodicity of about 6 min for strong sea-breeze fronts.  相似文献   

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