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副热带东北太平洋混合层深度及其对潜沉的影响 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The present climate simulations of the mixed layer depth(MLD) and the subduction rate in the subtropical Northeast Pacific are investigated based on nine of the CMIP5 models. Compared with the observation data,spatial patterns of the MLD and the subduction rate are well simulated in these models. The spatial pattern of the MLD is nonuniform, with a local maximum MLD(140 m) region centered at(28°N, 135°W) in late winter. The nonuniform MLD pattern causes a strong MLD front on the south of the MLD maximum region, controls the lateral induction rate pattern, and then decides the nonuniform distribution of the subduction rate. Due to the inter-regional difference of the MLD, we divide this area into two regions. The relatively uniform Ekman pumping has little effect on the nonuniform subduction spatial pattern, though it is nearly equal to the lateral induction in values. In the south region, the northward warm Ekman advection(–1.75×10~(–7) K/s) controls the ocean horizontal temperature advection(–0.85×10~(–7) K/s), and prevents the deepening of the MLD. In the ensemble mean, the contribution of the ocean advection to the MLD is about –29.0 m/month, offsetting the sea surface net heat flux contribution(33.9 m/month). While in the north region, the southward cold advection deepens the MLD(21.4 m/month) as similar as the heat flux(30.4 m/month). In conclusion, the nonuniform MLD pattern is dominated by the nonuniform ocean horizontal temperature advection. This new finding indicates that the upper ocean current play an important role in the variability of the winter MLD and the subduction rate. 相似文献
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The response of the mixed layer depth(MLD) and subduction rate in the subtropical Northeast Pacific to global warming is investigated based on 9 CMIP5 models. Compared with the present climate in the 9 models, the response of the MLD in the subtropical Northeast Pacific to the increased radiation forcing is spatially nonuniform, with the maximum shoaling about 50 m in the ensemble mean result. The inter-model differences of MLD change are non-negligible, which depend on the various dominated mechanisms. On the north of the MLD front, MLD shallows largely and is influenced by Ekman pumping, heat flux, and upper-ocean cold advection changes. On the south of the MLD front, MLD changes a little in the warmer climate, which is mainly due to the upper-ocean warm advection change. As a result, the MLD front intensity weakens obviously from 0.24 m/km to0.15 m/km(about 33.9%) in the ensemble mean, not only due to the maximum of MLD shoaling but also dependent on the MLD non-uniform spatial variability. The spatially non-uniform decrease of the subduction rate is primarily dominated by the lateral induction reduction(about 85% in ensemble mean) due to the significant weakening of the MLD front. This research indicates that the ocean advection change impacts the MLD spatially non-uniform change greatly, and then plays an important role in the response of the MLD front and the subduction process to global warming. 相似文献
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The present climate simulation and future projection of the mixed layer depth (MLD) and subduction process in the subtropical Southeast Pacific are investigated based on the geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory earth system model (GFDL-ESM2M). The MLD deepens from May and reaches its maximum (>160 m) near (24°S, 104°W) in September in the historical simulation. The MLD spatial pattern in September is non-uniform in the present climate, which shows three characteristics: (1) the deep MLD extends from the Southeast Pacific to the West Pacific and leads to a "deep tongue" until 135°W; (2) the northern boundary of the MLD maximum is smoothly near 18°S, and MLD shallows sharply to the northeast; (3) there is a relatively shallow MLD zone inserted into the MLD maximum eastern boundary near (26°S, 80°W) as a weak "shallow tongue". The MLD non-uniform spatial pattern generates three strong MLD fronts respectively in the three key regions, promoting the subduction rate. After global warming, the variability of MLD spatial patterns is remarkably diverse, rather than deepening consistently. In all the key regions, the MLD deepens in the south but shoals in the north, strengthing the MLD front. As a result, the subduction rate enhances in these areas. This MLD antisymmetric variability is mainly influenced by various factors, especially the potential-density horizontal advection non-uniform changes. Notice that the freshwater flux change helps to deepen the MLD uniformly in the whole basin, so it hardly works on the regional MLD variability. The study highlights that there are regional differences in the mechanisms of the MLD change, and the MLD front change caused by MLD non-uniform variability is the crucial factor in the subduction response to global warming. 相似文献
4.
Seasonal and interannual variability of the Subtropical Countercurrent (STCC) in the western North Pacific are investigated
using observations by satellites and Argo profiling floats and an atmospheric reanalysis. The STCC displays a clear seasonal
cycle. It is strong in late winter to early summer with a peak in June, and weak in fall. Interannual variations of the spring
STCC are associated with an enhanced subtropical front (STF) below the surface mixed layer. In climatology, the SST front
induces a band of cyclonic wind stress in May north of the STCC on the background of anticyclonic curls that drive the subtropical
gyre. The band of cyclonic wind and the SST front show large interannual variability and are positively correlated with each
other, suggesting a positive feedback between them. The cyclonic wind anomaly is negatively correlated with the SSH and SST
below. The strong (weak) cyclonic wind anomaly elevates (depresses) the thermocline and causes the fall (rise) in the SSH
and SST, accelerating (decelerating) STCC to the south. It is suggested that the anomalies in the SST front and STCC in the
preceding winter affect the subsequent development of the cyclonic wind anomaly in May. Results from our analysis of interannual
variability support the idea that the local wind forcing in May causes the subsequent variations in STCC. 相似文献
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本文利用第五次国际耦合模式比较计划（CMIP5）中的地球系统模式（ESM2M）,结合Argo观测数据和由Ishii等整理的再分析数据集,分析现在气候背景和辐射强迫极端增强下副热带东北太平洋海域（10°～40°N,110°～160°W）混合层深度（MLD）和潜沉率的季节变化特征,研究其对全球变暖的响应。在现在气候背景下,二者最大值均出现在冬季。潜沉率的主要贡献项存在显著的季节变化差异,1?5月主要受侧向潜沉率的变化控制,6?12月则由风应力旋度导致的埃克曼抽吸速度变化主控。全球变暖后,季节循环信号的主控要素不变。但受风应力旋度等要素变化的影响,各季节的MLD减小,大值区范围收缩。由于冬季减小幅度远大于夏季,MLD季节波动幅度（振幅）显著变小。长期看,MLD呈现持续变浅的趋势,其空间不均匀性减弱引起的MLD锋面减弱是控制侧向潜沉率减弱,最终导致总潜沉率减弱的关键。由于埃克曼抽吸速度的季节变化信号对全球变暖的响应较小,因此总潜沉率在冬季受全球变暖的影响最为强烈。上述结果表明,构成潜沉率的两个关键要素对总潜沉率的贡献比例是随着季节变化而改变的:冬季MLD锋面强盛时期,侧向潜沉率的影响将显著增强。全球变暖前后二者截然不同的变化会显著改变潜沉率的季节循环振幅,可能对该区域模态水的形成和输运产生深远的影响。 相似文献
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Review on North Pacific Subtropical Countercurrents and Subtropical Fronts: role of mode waters in ocean circulation and climate 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
A Subtropical Countercurrent (STCC) is a narrow eastward jet on the equator side of a subtropical gyre, flowing against the
broad westward Sverdrup flow. Together with theories, recent enhanced observations and model simulations have revealed the
importance of mode waters in the formation and variability of North Pacific STCCs. There are three distinct STCCs in the North
Pacific, maintained by low potential vorticity (PV) that mode waters carry from the north. Model simulations show that changes
in mode water ventilation result in interannual to interdecadal variations and long-term changes of STCCs. STCCs affect the
atmosphere through their surface thermal effects, inducing anomalous cyclonic wind curl and precipitation along them. Thus,
mode waters are not merely passive water masses but have dynamical and climatic effects. For temporal variability, atmospheric
forcings are also suggested to be important in addition to the variability of mode waters. STCCs exist in other oceans and
they are also flanked by mode waters on their poleward sides, suggesting that they are maintained by similar dynamics. 相似文献
7.
Interannual-to-decadal variations in the subtropical countercurrent (STCC) and low potential vorticity (PV) water and their
relations in the North Pacific Ocean are investigated on the basis of a 60-year-long hindcast integration of an eddy-resolving
ocean general circulation model. Although vertically coherent variations are dominant for STCC interannual variability, a
correlation analysis shows that an intensified STCC vertical shear accompanies lower PV than usual to the north on 25.5- to
26.1-σθ isopycnal surfaces, and intensified meridional density gradient in subsurface layers, consistent with Kubokawa’s theory (J
Phys Oceanogr 29:1314–1333, 1999). The low-PV signals appear at least 2 years before peaks of STCC, propagating southwestward from the subduction region. 相似文献
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The mixed layer depth (MLD) front and subduction under seasonal variability are investigated using an idealized ocean general circulation model (OGCM) with simple seasonal forcings. A sharp MLD front develops and subduction occurs at the front from late winter to early spring. The position of the MLD front agrees with the curve where \({\rm D}T_{\rm s}/{\rm D}t = \partial T_{\rm s} /\partial t + {\user2{u}}_{\rm g} \cdot \nabla T_{\rm s} = 0\) is satisfied (t is time, \({\user2{u}}_{\rm g}\) is the upper-ocean geostrophic velocity, \(T_{\rm s}\) is the sea surface temperature (SST), and \(\nabla\) is the horizontal gradient operator), indicating that thick mixed-layer water is subducted there parallel to the SST contour. This is a generalization of the past result that the MLD front coincides with the curve \({\user2{u}}_{\rm g} \cdot \nabla T_{\rm s} = 0\) when the forcing is steady. Irreversible subduction at the MLD front is limited to about 1 month, where the beginning of the irreversible subduction period agrees with the first coincidence of the MLD front and \({\rm D}T_{\rm s}/{\rm D}t =0\) in late winter, and the end of the period roughly corresponds to the disappearance of the MLD front in early spring. Subduction volume at the MLD front during this period is similar to that during 1 year in the steady-forcing model. Since the cooling of the deep mixed-layer water occurs only in winter and SST can not fully catch up with the seasonally varying reference temperature of restoring, the cooling rate of SST is reduced and the zonal gradient of the SST in the northwestern subtropical gyre is a little altered in the seasonal-forcing case. These effects result in slightly lower densities of subducted water and the eastward shift of the MLD front. 相似文献
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全球海洋环流模式中上层海洋对表面强迫的响应和调整Ⅱ.年代际变率 总被引：6，自引：1，他引：5
利用一个较高分辨率的全球海洋环流模式在COADS 1945～1993年逐月平均资料的强迫下对海温和环流场进行了模拟,分析了北太平洋海温和环流场的年代际变化特征,同时诊断了1976-77年代际跃变过程中海温场变化的机制.模式模拟出了北太平洋海温年代际异常的主要模态以及1976-77年跃变前后的演变特征,模拟的北太平洋中部、加州沿岸和KOE区的海温异常的强度和演变趋势均和观测比较一致;同时,模式重现了分别始于20世纪70和80年代的中纬度海温异常信号沿等密度面向低纬地区的两次潜沉过程.在表层,流场的异常主要表现为与风应力异常基本符合Ekman关系的一个异常海洋涡旋,而整个上层海洋平均的流场异常则表现为两个海洋涡旋的异常,其中副热带海洋涡旋的异常的强度要显著于副极地海洋涡旋的异常,而副极地海洋涡旋异常出现的时间比副热带海洋涡旋晚3a左右的时间.对1976-77年前后3个区域上层海温各贡献项的诊断结果表明,北太平洋中部变冷主要是水平平流和热通量异常贡献的结果;而加州沿岸变暖主要归因于热通量的贡献;在KOE区,垂直平流、热通量和水平平流三者都起了重要作用,其中水平平流异常对这一区域海温年代际跃变出现的时间起了至关重要的作用. 相似文献
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The North Pacific Central Mode Water (CMW) is a water mass that forms in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension (KOE) region with
characteristic low potential vorticity. Recent studies have suggested that the CMW, as low potential vorticity water, plays
an important role in the adjustment of the subtropical gyre and subsurface variability on decadal to interdecadal timescales.
We have forced a realistic ocean general circulation model (OGCM) with observed wind stress and sea surface temperature (SST)
forcing to investigate the decadal variations of the CMW. Associated with the large atmospheric changes after the mid-1970s
climate regime shift, the upper thermocline experiences a cooling as negative SST anomalies in the central North Pacific are
subducted and advected southward. In addition to this thermodynamic response, the CMW’s path shifts anomalously eastward in
response to anomalous Ekman pumping. This eastward shift of the core of the CMW produces a lowering of the isotherms, and
a consequent warming, on the path of the CMW core. This warming partially counteracts the cooling associated with subducted
surface anomalies, and it may be responsible for the reduced temperature variations at the climatological position of the
CMW when both anomalous wind and heat fluxes are given. Lateral induction across the sloping bottom of the winter mixed layer
in the KOE is critical to the formation of the low potential vorticity CMW. Coarse resolution models, which are widely used
in climate modeling, underestimate the horizontal gradient of the mixed layer depth and form only a weak CMW or none at all.
We have conducted a coarse resolution experiment with the same OGCM, showing that the subsurface response is much reduced.
In particular, there is no dynamic warming in the CMW and the thermodynamic response to the SST cooling dominates. The resultant
total response differs substantially from that in the finer resolution run where a strong CMW forms. This sensitivity to the
model resolution corroborates the important dynamical role that the CMW may play with its distinctive low potential vorticity
character and calls for its improved simulation. 相似文献
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A new type of pycnostad has been identified in the western subtropical-subarctic transition region of the North Pacific, based
on the intensive hydrographic survey carried out in July, 2002. The potential density, temperature and salinity of the pycnostad
were found to be 26.5–26.7 σ
θ
, 5°–7°C and 33.5–33.9 psu respectively. The pycnostad is denser, colder and fresher than those of the North Pacific Central
Mode Water and different from those of other known mode waters in the North Pacific. The thickness of the pycnostad is comparable
to that of other mode waters, spreading over an area of at least 650 × 500 km around 43°N and 160°E in the western transition
region. Hence, we refer to the pycnostad as Transition Region Mode Water (TRMW). Oxygen data, geostrophic current speed and
climatology of mixed layer depth in the winter suggest that the TRMW is formed regularly in the deep winter mixed layer near
the region where it was observed. Analysis of surface heat flux also supports the idea and suggests that there is significant
interannual variability in the property of the TRMW. The TRMW is consistently distributed between the Subarctic Boundary and
the Subarctic Front. It is also characterized by a wide T-S range with similar density, which is the characteristic of such
a transition region between subtropical and subarctic water masses, which forms a density-compensating temperature and salinity
front. The frontal nature also tends to cause isopycnal intrusions within the pycnostad of the TRMW. 相似文献
12.
Progress of North Pacific mode water research in the past decade 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
13.
通过海气耦合模式CCSM3(The Community Climate System Model version 3),研究在北大西洋高纬度淡水强迫下,北太平洋冬季的海表温度SST、风场及流场的响应及其区域性差异。结果表明:淡水的注入使北太平洋整体变冷,但有部分区域异常增暖;在太平洋东部赤道两侧,SST的变化出现北负南正的偶极子型分布。阿留申低压北移的同时中纬度西风减弱,热带附近东北信风增强。黑潮和南赤道流减弱,北太平洋副热带逆流和北赤道流增强,日本海被南向流控制。风场及流场的改变共同导致了北太平洋SST异常出现复杂的空间差异:北太平洋中高纬度SST的降温主要由大气过程决定,海洋动力过程主要影响黑潮、日本海及副热带逆流区域的SST,太平洋热带地区SST异常由大气与海洋共同主导。 相似文献
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Mixed layer depth front and subduction of low potential vorticity water in an idealized ocean GCM 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
It is known that there is a front-like structure at the mixed layer depth (MLD) distribution in the subtropical gyre, which
is called the MLD front, and is associated with the formation region of mode water. In the present article, the generation
mechanism of the MLD front is studied using an idealized ocean general circulation model with no seasonal forcing. First,
it is shown that the MLD front occurs along a curve where u
g
·∇T
s
= 0 is satisfied (u
g
is the upper ocean geostrophic velocity vector, T
s
is the sea surface temperature and ∇ is the horizontal gradient operator). In other words, the front is the boundary between
the subduction region (u
g
·∇T
s
> 0) and the region where subduction does not occur (u
g
·∇T
s
< 0). Second, we have investigated subduction of low potential vorticity water at the MLD front, which has been pointed out
by past studies. Since u
g
·∇T
s
= 0 at the MLD front, the water particles do not cross the outcrop at the MLD front. The water that is subducted at the MLD
front has come from the deep mixed layer region where the sea surface temperature is higher than that at the MLD front. The
temperature of the water in the deep mixed layer region decreases as it is advected eastward, attains its minimum at the MLD
front where u
g
·∇T
s
= 0, and then subducts under the warmer surface layer. Since the deep mixed layer water subducts beneath a thin stratified
surface layer, maintaining its thickness, the mixed layer depth changes abruptly at the subduction location. 相似文献
15.
Decadal-to-interdecadal response and adjustment of the North Pacific to prescribed surface forcing in an oceanic general circulation model 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
1IntroductionAvariety of observational evidences have shownthe existence of decadal-to-interdecadal variabilitiesin the Pacific Ocean.The phase transition for thosevariabilities could be gradual or abrupt.A strikingexample for abrupt change is the so-call… 相似文献
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北太平洋副热带东部模态水现在和未来的模拟分析 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
The present climate simulation and future projection of the Eastern Subtropical Mode Water(ESTMW) in the North Pacific are investigated based on the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Earth System Model(GFDL-ESM2M). Spatial patterns of the mixed layer depth(MLD) in the eastern subtropical North Pacific and the ESTMW are well simulated using this model. Compared with historical simulation, the ESTMW is produced at lighter isopycnal surfaces and its total volume is decreased in the RCP8.5 runs, because the subduction rate of the ESTMW decreases by 0.82×10-6 m/s during February–March. In addition, it is found that the lateral induction decreasing is approximately four times more than the Ekman pumping, and thus it plays a dominant role in the decreased subduction rate associated with global warming. Moreover, the MLD during February–March is banded shoaling in response to global warming, extending northeastward from the east of the Hawaii Islands(20°N, 155°W) to the west coast of North America(30°N, 125°W), with a maximum shoaling of 50 m, and then leads to the lateral induction reduction. Meanwhile, the increased northeastward surface warm current to the east of Hawaii helps strengthen of the local upper ocean stratification and induces the banded shoaling MLD under warmer climate. This new finding indicates that the ocean surface currents play an important role in the response of the MLD and the ESTMW to global warming. 相似文献
17.
Formation of Subtropical Mode Water in a high-resolution ocean simulation of the Kuroshio Extension region 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
A high-resolution numerical model is used to examine the formation and variability of the North Pacific Subtropical Mode Water (STMW) over a 3-year period. The STMW distribution is found to be highly variable in both space and time, a characteristic often unexplored because of sparse observations or the use of coarse resolution simulations. Its distribution is highly dependent on eddies, and where it was renewed during the previous winter. Although the potential vorticity fluxes associated with down-front winds can be of the same order of magnitude or even greater than the diabatic ones due to air–sea temperature differences, the latter dominate the potential vorticity budget on regional and larger scales. Air–sea fluxes, however, are dominated by a few strong wind events, emphasizing the importance of short time scales in the formation of mode waters. In the Kuroshio Extension region, both advection and mixing play important roles to remove the STMW from the formation region. 相似文献
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Eitarou Oka Shota Katsura Hiroyuki Inoue Atsushi Kojima Moeko Kitamoto Toshiya Nakano Toshio Suga 《Journal of Oceanography》2017,73(4):479-490
The 137°E repeat hydrographic section for 50 winters during 1967–2016 has been analyzed to examine interannual to interdecadal variations and long-term changes of salinity and temperature in the surface and intermediate layers of the western North Pacific, with a particular focus on freshening in the subtropical gyre. Rapid freshening on both isobars and isopycnals began in the mid-1990s and persisted for the last 20 years in the upper main thermocline/halocline in the western subtropical gyre. In addition, significant decadal variability of salinity existed in the subtropical mode water (STMW), as previously reported for the shallower layers. An analysis of the 144°E repeat hydrographic section during 1984–2013 supplemented by Argo profiling float data in 2014 and 2015 revealed that the freshening trend and decadal variability observed at 137°E originated in the winter mixed layer in the Kuroshio Extension (KE) region and was transmitted southwestward to 137°E 1–2 years later in association with the subduction and advection of STMW. The mechanism of these changes and variations in the source region was further investigated. In addition to the surface freshwater flux in the KE region pointed out by previous studies, the decadal KE variability in association with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation likely contributes to the decadal salinity variability through water exchange between the subtropics and the subarctic across the KE. Interdecadal change in both the surface freshwater flux and the KE state, however, failed to explain the rapid freshening for the last 20 years. 相似文献
19.
To explore the causes of the winter shallow mixed layer and high sea surface temperature (SST) along the strong Kuroshio jet
from the East China Sea to the upstream Kuroshio extension (25.5°N–150°E) during 1988–1994 when the Japanese sardine stocks
collapsed, high-resolution ocean general circulation model (OGCM) hindcast data are analyzed with a bulk mixed layer model
which traces particles at the mixed layer base. The shallow mixed layer and high SST along the Kuroshio jet are mainly caused
by the acceleration of the Kuroshio current velocity and the reduction of the surface cooling. Because the acceleration reduces
the time during which the mixed layer is exposed to wintertime cooling, deepening and cooling of the winter mixed layer are
restricted. The weaker surface cooling due to less severe meteorological forcing also causes the shallow mixed layer and the
high SST. The impact of the strong heat transport along the Kuroshio extends to the southern recirculation gyre of the Kuroshio/Kuroshio
extension regions; previous indications that the Japanese sardine recruitment is correlated with the winter SST and the mixed
layer depth (MLD) in the Kuroshio extension recirculation region could be related to the velocity, SST, and MLD near the Kuroshio
axis which also could affect the variability of North Pacific subtropical water. 相似文献