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Jiayan Yang 《Ocean Modelling》2003,5(4):357-379
The western boundary layer (WBL) plays a fundamental role in basin-scale wind-driven ocean circulations. In idealized ocean models with flat bottom topography, this layer is required not only to balance the interior Sverdrup transport to close the gyre circulation, but also to dissipate the vorticity imposed by the wind-stress curl. The width of the WBL in Munk-type models is estimated to be δM(AH/β)1/3, where AH and β are horizontal eddy viscosity and the meridional derivative of the Coriolis parameter respectively. For commonly used values of AH, the boundary-layer width δM ranges from 30 to less than 200 km in the mid-latitude ocean. This scale is often poorly resolved in large-scale climate models.This paper intends to demonstrate some consequences when the western boundary layer is not adequately resolved. It is found that coarse resolution models reach equilibrium states by distorting some important dynamics in order to dissipate wind-imposed vorticity. In three-dimensional models, for instance, very strong spurious upwelling and downwelling can occur along the WBL. In models of two-dimensional flow, however, spurious recirculations may develop near the boundary. These false features can be removed when the boundary layer is better resolved. We propose a method in which a spatially varying AH is used to broaden the WBL without affecting mixing in the interior. The method improves the model results considerably. 相似文献
2.
Verification of the wind-driven transport in the North Pacific subtropical gyre using gridded wind-stress products 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
Wind-stress products supplied by satellite scatterometers carried the European Remote-sensing Satellite (ERS) and QuikSCAT
(QSCAT), together with numerical weather predictions from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF)
and the National Centre for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) were used to estimate wind-driven transports of the North Pacific
subtropical gyre. At 30°N, we compared the wind-driven transports with geostrophic transports calculated from World Ocean
Database 2005. The wind-driven transports for QSCAT and NCEP are in good agreement with the geostrophic transport within reasonable
error, except for a regional difference in the eastern part of the section. The difference in the eastern part suggests an
anti-cyclonic deviation of the geostrophic transport, resulting from an anti-cyclonic anomalous flow in the surface layer.
It is suggested that this anomalous flow is the Eastern Gyral, produced by the thermohaline process associated with the formation
of the Eastern Subtropical Mode Water. To investigate the validity of QSCAT and NCEP data, we examined whether or not the
Sverdrup transports for these products are consistent with the transport of the western boundary current estimated by past
studies. The net southward transport, given by the sum of the Sverdrup transport for QSCAT and NCEP and the thermohaline transport,
agrees well with the net northward transport of the western boundary current. From this result, together with the fact that
the wind-driven transports for these products are in good agreement with the geostrophic transport, we conclude that the Sverdrup
balance can hold in the North Pacific subtropical gyre. 相似文献
3.
Nobuo Suginohara 《Journal of Oceanography》1980,35(6):215-223
A wind-driven, general circulation for a two-layer ocean with continental shelf-slope along the western boundary is studied numerically. Special attention is focused on the formation process of the western boundary current in the subtropical gyre. The western boundary current develops in the upper layer along the western boundary on the shelf-slope with a bottom trapped poleward flow in the lower layer. The poleward undercurrent is concentrated approximately along the contour lines of the potential vorticity,f/D, wheref is the Coriolis parameter andD the depth of the ocean. The separation of upper- and lower-layer flows on the shelf-slope represents a typical transient response. As the response approaches a steady state, the poleward undercurrent decreases in amplitude, and the motion tends to be confined to the upper layer. The flow pattern becomes similar to that found in a flat bottom ocean. A steady-state response is expected to be isostatic (no motion in the lower layer), even on the shelf-slope, as conservation of potential vorticity would suggest.The remarkable increase in transport of the western boundary current produced by the formation of an anticyclonic vortex on the shelf-slope extending throughout the hemisphere (Holland, 1973) does not occur in the wind-driven general circulation. 相似文献
4.
Takashi Ichiye 《Journal of Oceanography》1977,33(3):151-160
A storm moves with a constant speed parallel to a stationary geostrophic current which flows only in the upper layer of a two-layer, infinite ocean. It is assumed that the lower layer is motionless. The quasi-geostrophic approximation is valid for a moving speed less than 4 ms–1 for a storm radius of 100 km. The primary change of the upper layer thickness is caused by the wind stress divergence and the time integral of the wind stress curl. A cyclonic storm generates upwelling in its wake. The effect of the stationary flow similar to a western boundary current is minor by an order of magnitude and noticeable only on the left edge of the flow. Scaling of equations of motion and continuity for a more general upper geostrophic flow leads to expansion with a parametera
2=gH
m(fL)–2, whereg is reduced gravity,H
m is the maximum thickness of the upper layer,f is Coriolis' parameter andL is the storm radius. The zeroth order perturbations of transport and thickness do not include the stationary flow which appears only in the first order perturbations ina
2. When there is a coast, the change of the interface near the coast is dependent on the time integral of the wind stress component parallel to the coast, thus leading to upwelling or downwelling according to the center being to the left or right of the coastline. 相似文献
5.
-STD Data obtained from the Third Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition from January to February 1987 in the region near the South Shetland Islands are used to investigate an oceanic front, continental water boundary (CWB), north of the South Shetland Islands. The characteristics of the CWB in surface and subsurface layers as well as deep layer are discussed respectively. The estimations of the geostrophic currents and the baroclinic deformed radius Rbc in this area show that the flow along the front is in the geostrophic equilibrium approximately, and the formation of the front is mainly due to the strong boundary current north of the South Shetland Islands. Its length along the front is estimated to be about 360 km and its width across the front is about 30 km. 相似文献
6.
The Mindanao Current (MC) bridges the North Pacific low-latitude western boundary current system region and the Indonesian Seas by supplying the North Pacific waters to the Indonesian Throughflow. Although the previous study speculated that the diapycnal mixing along the MC might be strong on the basis of the water mass analysis of the gridded climatologic dataset, the real spatial distribution of diapycnal mixing along the MC has remained to be clarified. We tackle this question here by applying a finescale parameterization to temperature and salinity profiles obtained using two rapid-sampling profiling Argo floats that drifted along the MC. The western boundary (WB) region close to the Mindanao Islands and the Sangihe Strait are the two mixing hotspots along the MC, with energy dissipation rate ε and diapycnal diffusivity Kρ enhanced up to?~?10–6 W kg?1 and?~?10–3 m2 s?1, respectively. Except for the above two mixing hotspots, the turbulent mixing along the MC is mostly weak, with ε and Kρ to be 10–11–10–9 W kg?1 and 10–6–10–5 m2 s?1, respectively. Strong mixing in the Sangihe Strait can be basically attributed to the existence of internal tides, whereas strong mixing in the WB region suggests the existence of internal lee waves. We also find that water mass transformation along the MC mainly occurs in the Sangihe Strait where the water masses are subjected to strong turbulent mixing during a long residence time.
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Shinya Minato 《Journal of Oceanography》1982,38(4):225-235
Geostrophic adjustment of a two-layer fluid near a straight coast is investigated for an initial pressure disturbance which has no closed geostrophic contours by using a reduced gravity (divergent barotropic) model. Propagation of a volume of water along the coast due to the internal Kelvin wave allows a non-zero solution for the final geostrophic state. Energy partitions among geostrophic motion, the internal Kelvin wave and internal Poincaré waves are obtained and compared with the result of the classical problem of geostrophic adjustment without the coast. It is found that energy partition to the geostrophic motion (EPG) with the coast is always smaller than that without the coast (EPG
), while the scale of the initial disturbance is the same. The difference betweenEPG andEPG
is smaller than the energy partition to the internal Kelvin waves (EPK) and approachesEPK as the scale of the initial disturbance increases. 相似文献
8.
The seasonal cycle of circulation and transport in the Antarctic Peninsula shelf region is investigated using a high-resolution (∼2 km) regional model based on the Regional Oceanic Modeling System (ROMS). The model also includes a naturally occurring tracer with a strong source over the shelf (radium isotope 228Ra, t1/2=5.8 years) to investigate the sediment Fe input and its transport. The model is spun-up for three years using climatological boundary and surface forcing and then run for the 2004–2006 period using realistic forcing. Model results suggest a persistent and coherent circulation system throughout the year consisting of several major components that converge water masses from various sources toward Elephant Island. These currents are largely in geostrophic balance, driven by surface winds, topographic steering, and large-scale forcing. Strong off-shelf transport of the Fe-rich shelf waters takes place over the northeastern shelf/slope of Elephant Island, driven by a combination of topographic steering, extension of shelf currents, and strong horizontal mixing between the ACC and shelf waters. These results are generally consistent with recent and historical observational studies. Both the shelf circulation and off-shelf transport show a significant seasonality, mainly due to the seasonal changes of surface winds and large-scale circulation. Modeled and observed distributions of 228Ra suggest that a majority of Fe-rich upper layer waters exported off-shelf around Elephant Island are carried by the shelfbreak current and the Bransfield Strait Current from the shallow sills between Gerlache Strait and Livingston Island, and northern shelf of the South Shetland Islands, where strong winter mixing supplies much of the sediment derived nutrients (including Fe) input to the surface layer. 相似文献
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The method of two-dimensional isopycnic analysis is applied to study the distribution of inorganic phosphates and nitrates
in the Black Sea. The effect of winter-time ventilation in the central sea on the formation of chemical fields is examined,
as well as the outcropping of biogenic elements from the layer of high concentrations (σ
t∼14.5–16.0). It is demonstrated that the amount of nitrates entering the upper active layer of the sea as a result of winter-time
convective ventilation may attain values comparable with their overall annual input by river discharge, and that they control
the intensity of winter-spring phytoplankton blooming in the central sea. The spatial variability of the vertical phosphate
distribution is analysed. For the annual cycles with fairly cool winter conditions, an occurrence of three peaks on the phosphates
vertical profile in spring has been documented over a vast sea area where the rim current represents an external dynamic boundary.
Translated by Vladimir A. Puchkin. 相似文献
10.
We used Argo float drift data to estimate average ocean currents at 1000 dbar depth from early 2000 to early 2010. Our estimates
cover the global oceans, except for marginal seas and ice-covered regions, at a resolution of 1 degree in latitude and longitude.
The estimated flow field satisfies the horizontal boundary condition of no flow through the topography, and is in geostrophic
balance. We also estimated the uncertainty in the average flow field, which had a typical magnitude of 0.03 ms−1. The uncertainty is relatively large (>0.03 ms−1 in both the zonal and meridional directions) near the Equator and in the Southern Ocean. The array bias, which is the bias
due to the horizontal gradient in the spatial density of the float data, is generally negligible, with an average magnitude
outside the equatorial region of 0.007 ms−1, becoming relatively large (>0.01 ms−1) only near the coastal regions. The measurement uncertainty is assumed to be spatially uniform and includes errors due to
the Argos positioning system, internal clock drift, unknown surface drift before submerging or after surfacing, and unknown
drifts during ascent and descent between the surface and the parking depth. We found that the overall uncertainty was not
sensitive to the assumed value of the measurement uncertainty (ɛ
m
)1/2 when (ɛ
m
)1/2 < 0.01 ms−1 but it increased with (ɛ
m
)1/2 for (ɛ
m
)1/2 > 0.01 ms−1. 相似文献
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M. V. Kalashnik 《Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics》2011,47(4):439-444
Cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry in a rotating fluid results in vortices with cyclonic rotation being attenuated more rapidly than vortices with anticyclonic rotation due to the Ekman bottom friction. To explain this effect, some authors invoked rather complex integral (averaged along the vertical) models with the parametrization of nonlinear friction. A simple analytical model, free of the procedure of formal averaging and based on a separate consideration of the equations for external flow in the nonviscous region and internal flow in the boundary layer, is investigated in this work. The corresponding equations are written in the so-called geostrophic momentum approximation, which makes it possible to take into account the nonlinear advective mass transport in the boundary layer at small Rossby numbers. The nonlinear equation of the hyperbolic type for the tangential velocity, which describes the process of attenuation of an axisymmetric vortex, is obtained from the condition of total mass conservation. Based on the solutions to this equation, it was shown that distinctions in the character of vortex attenuation are caused by deviations from the geostrophic regime in the nonviscous region. It was established that the concentration (compression) of anticyclonic vortices and the extension of cyclonic ones take place in the process of attenuation. 相似文献
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《African Journal of Marine Science》2013,35(3):653-657
Stage C5 copepodids and adult females of the herbivorous copepod Calanoides carinatus were sampled in the Angola-Benguela frontal region and northern Benguela upwelling area off Namibia in February–March 2002, using a multiple opening/closing net system. Respiration rates of C5s collected between 400m and 700m were measured onboard at the simulated in situ temperature of 8°C and at sea surface temperature (SST ≥20°C). These data were compared to the oxygen demand of epipelagic individuals of C. carinatus caught in the upper 30m and incubated at ambient SST. Deep-living C5s consumed 0.21 ± 0.08ml O2 h?1 (g dry mass)?1 at 8°C and 0.96ml O2 h?1 (g dry mass)?1 (range 0.84–1.09) at 25.9°C. These results were substantially lower than respiration rates of 5.23 ± 0.55ml O2 h?1 (g dry mass)?1 in epipelagic individuals incubated at SST. The results reveal a reduction by 96% of metabolic rate in deep-living, diapausing C5s relative to surface-dwelling, active individuals. Only 14.4% of this metabolic reduction is explained by the lower ambient temperature at depth and a Q10 value of 2.34. Therefore, the major fraction (81.6%) of the metabolic reduction is attributable to active physiological changes or processes during diapause at depth. The study emphasises the importance for herbivorous copepods, in areas with a highly variable food supply, to adopt a dormant phase in their life cycle in order to survive long periods of starvation. 相似文献
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Hydrographic data show that the meridional deep current at 47°N is weak and southward in northeastern North Pacific; the strong
northward current expected for an upwelling in a flat-bottom ocean is absent. This may imply that the eastward-rising bottom
slope in the Northeast Pacific Basin contributes to the overturning circulation. After analysis of observational data, we
examine the bottom-slope effect using models in which deep water enters the lower deep layer, upwells to the upper deep layer,
and exits laterally. The analytical model is based on geostrophic hydrostatic balance, Sverdrup relation, and vertical advection–diffusion
balance of density, and incorporates a small bottom slope and an eastward-increasing upwelling. Due to the sloping bottom,
current in the lower deep layer intensifies bottomward, and the intensification is weaker for larger vertical eddy diffusivity
(K
V), weaker stratification, and smaller eastward increase in upwelling. Varying the value of K
V changes the vertical structure and direction of the current; the current is more barotropic and flows further eastward as
K
V increases. The eastward current is reproduced with the numerical model that incorporates the realistic bottom-slope gradient
and includes boundary currents. The interior current flows eastward primarily, runs up the bottom slope, and produces an upwelling.
The eastward current has a realistic volume transport that is similar to the net inflow, unlike the large northward current
for a flat bottom. The upwelling water in the upper deep layer flows southward and then westward in the southern region, although
it may partly upwell further into the intermediate layer. 相似文献
14.
Seismic quality factor observations for gas-hydrate-bearing sediments on the western margin of India 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Kalachand Sain A. K. Singh N. K. Thakur Ramesh Khanna 《Marine Geophysical Researches》2009,30(3):137-145
Any propagating wave undergoes attenuation, which is primarily governed by the physical properties of the medium, determined
in terms of quality factor (Q). Research into the characteristics of both P- and S-wave Q with reference to gas-hydrates exploration remains in its infancy. Presence of gas-hydrates increases the Q, and this again depends on the nature of distribution and amount of hydrates within the sediments. Thus, estimation of Q provides useful input for both the detection and quantitative assessment of gas-hydrates. Here we propose a simple technique
of deriving Q from prestack surface seismic reflection data based on the logarithm of spectral ratio (LSR), and apply the method to marine
multi-channel seismic (MCS) data collected on the western margin of India where a bottom simulating reflector (BSR), which
is a prime marker for gas-hydrates, has already been identified. The Q (256 ± 11) estimated over the region with a strong BSR is found to be more than double the Q (101 ± 9) derived for the region without any BSR or a weak BSR. The anomalously high Q with respect to the background can be used to detect gas-hydrates in areas where the BSR is not very clearly observed on
seismic sections. 相似文献
15.
Takashi Ichiye 《Journal of Oceanography》1977,33(4):169-182
A circular storm moves with a constant speedc along a geostrophic flow similar to a western boundary current in the upper layer of a two-layer ocean with the motionless lower layer. The linear inertia terms are retained. Effects of the current becomes more conspicuous for smallerc and insignificant forc above 10 m s–1. The inertia effects are manifested in cellular patterns of the interface perturbations with cell lengths of(c–vf
–1 in a wake of the storm with a radius of an order of 100 km, wherev is the current velocity. On the left hand edge where the flow has a strong shear, the interface displacements have large amplitudes which increase with a distance along the path in a wake of the storm. These disturbances propagate to the left of the edge within an angle of cot–1 (c
2/gH0–1), whereg is the reduced gravity andH
0 is the depth of the interface at the edge of the current. Comparison with the observations during Typhoon Trix in 1971 south of Japan suggests that fluctuations of the daily mean sea level with several days' periods observed along the southern coast of Japan may be due to the stationary oscillations of the Kuroshio caused by the inertia undulations along its left edge or due to the propagating perturbations to the left. 相似文献
16.
Using large eddy simulation (LES) incorporating the effect of the horizontal component of the earth’s rotation vector, we
studied the seafloor turbulent boundary layer to investigate the dependence of the boundary layer thickness on the overlying
geostrophic flow orientation. The thickest boundary layer appears for the westward geostrophic flow: it is almost twice that
of the eastward flow. The turbulent disturbances in the boundary layer are elongated slightly leftward relative to the geostrophic
flow. Linear stability analysis for the Ekman’s spiral flow showed that the growth rate is maximum for the westward geostrophic
flow and the unstable roll-like mode appears, which points slightly leftward relative to the geostrophic flow. These properties
correspond to the feature near the bottom of the developed turbulent layer. 相似文献
17.
南海西部风驱离岸急流次中尺度锋面的动力学分析 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
本文利用卫星观测资料和500 m分辨率数值模拟结果，结合理论分析，对南海西部夏季风场驱动的离岸急流海域次中尺度锋面及其不稳定对背景流场的动力学影响进行了研究。卫星观测和模拟结果表明，南海西部（WSCS）存在侧向尺度为O（1-10）km的次中尺度锋面，在地转和非地转运动的共同作用下，次中尺度密度锋面具有一阶Rossby（Ro）和Richardson（Ri）数。锋面诊断结果显示，沿锋面急流方向的风场强迫引起了显著的跨锋面Ekman净输送，有效地在跨锋面方向将表层冷水平流输送至暖水侧，导致海表浮力损失。减弱的垂向层结和增强的水平浮力梯度使得锋面海域出现负Ertel位涡（PV），表明该密度锋面易受次中尺度对称不稳定（SI）的影响。次中尺度锋面不稳定引起的跨锋面次级环流能够显著增强垂向速度，其最大值可达100 m·d-1。能量评估结果表明，次中尺度湍流的两个主要能量源，即地转剪切项（GSP）和垂向浮力通量（BFLUX）在锋面海域显著增强表明在沿锋面急流方向的风场强迫作用下，大尺度地转流的地转剪切动能和锋面有效位能能有效地通过锋面不稳定向次中尺度过程传递。因此，次中尺度锋面及其不稳定有助于增强局地垂向交换和正向串级地转能量，可以为夏季WSCS高叶绿素浓度的相干结构和锋面地转能量的正向传递提供新的动力解释。 相似文献
18.
A seismic refraction profile was shot along the axis of the Northern Symmetrical Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge system. Three models of the along-axis crustal structure fit the observed data equally well. One model includes a low-velocity zone, the top of which is at a depth below the seafloor of approximately 3 km, that is continuous along-axis for at least 30 km. A second model includes a low-Q layer, the top of which is also at a depth of approximately 3 km below the seafloor and is continuous along-axis for at least 30 km. Both the low-Q layer and low-velocity zone can be explained geologically by a region of elevated temperatures. The third model is characterized by a homogeneous seismic layer 3. All models contain an ~1 km s–1 discontinuity at the seismic layer 2/3 boundary; a wide-angle reflection from this boundary is seen on all record sections. Kappel and Ryan (1986) had previously proposed that the Northern Symmetrical Segment was in a stage of volcanic inactivity, and this theory is supported by the seismic observations. Two-dimensional modelling of travel times to ocean bottom hydrophone instruments shows that the amplitude variations in the along-axis depth to intracrustal seismic layers (a few hundred meters) is on the order of the lateral changes in topographic relief. It is suggested that the crustal emplacement processes reflect the deeper style of 3-D mantle upwelling beneath the ridge. 相似文献
19.
The Kuroshio near the Luzon Strait and circulation in the northern South China Sea during August and September 1994 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
Wind data from NCEP and hydrographic data obtained from August 28 to September 10, 1994 have been used to compute circulation
in the northern South China Sea and near Luzon Strait using three-dimensional diagnostic models with a modified inverse method.
The numerical results are as follows: the main Kuroshio is located above 400 m levels near Taiwan’s eastern coast and above
800 m levels away from it. Near Luzon Strait above 400 m levels a branch of the Kuroshio joins with a part of the northward
current, which comes from an area west of Luzon’s western coast and intrudes northwestward, then it branchs into western and
eastern parts near 20°30′ N. The eastern part flows northward into an area east of Taiwan, while its western part continues
to intrude northwestward, flowing through an area southwest of Taiwan. Net westward intruded volume transport through longitude
Section AB at 121°00′ E from 19°00′ N to 21° 43′ N is about 3.5 × 106 m3s−1 in a layer above 400 m levels. The anticyclonic eddies W1 and W3 exist above 700 m levels east of Dongsha Islands and below
200 m levels in the eastern part of the region, respectively. The circulation in the middle region is dominated mainly by
a basin-scale cyclonic gyre, and consists of three cyclonic eddies. Strong upwelling occurs in the middle region. The joint
effect of baroclinity and relief and interaction between wind stress and relief both are important for real forcing of flow
across contours of fH
−1 in effecting the circulation pattern. 相似文献
20.