Characteristics of thermal finestructure in the southern Yellow Sea and the East China Sea from airborne expendable bathythermograph measurements     

Sunghyea Park  Peter C. Chu 《Journal of Oceanography》2008,64(6):859-875

Four surveys of airborne expendable bathythermograph with horizontal spacing of about 35 km and vertical spacing of 1 m extending from the surface down to 400 m deep are used to analyze thermal finestructures and their seasonality in frontal zones of the southern Yellow Sea and the East China Sea. Finestructure characteristics are different not only among fronts but also along the same front, implying different mixing mechanisms. Summer thermocline intrusions with thickness from few to 40 meters, generated by the vertically-sheared advection, are identified along the southern tongue of the Cheju-Yangtze Front (especially south of Cheju Island). The finestructures south of the Yangtze Bank (i.e. the western tip of the southern tongue) produced by strong along-frontal currents are not as rich as elsewhere in the southern tongue. The Cheju-Tsushima Front presents mixed finestructures due to confluent currents from various origins. The irregular-staircase finestructures in the Kuroshio region (below the seasonal thermocline), driven by double-diffusive mixing, show seasonal invariance and vertical/horizontal coherence. The strength of mixing related to finestructure is weaker in the Kuroshio region than in the Cheju-Tsushima Front or south of Cheju Island. The profiles in the Tsushima Warm Current branching area show large (∼50 m thick), irregular-staircase structures at the upper 230 m depth, which coincides roughly with the lower boundary of the maximum salinity layer. The finestructure at depths deeper 230 m is similar to that in the Kuroshio region. The possible mechanisms for generating the finestructures are also discussed.  相似文献   

Influence of the Columbia River plume (USA) on the vertical and horizontal distribution of mesozooplankton over the Washington and Oregon shelf     

Peterson  Jay O.; Peterson  William T. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2008,65(3):477-483

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Spatial-temporal variability of submesoscale currents in the South China Sea     

LI Jianing  DONG Jihai  YANG Qingxuan  ZHANG Xu 《海洋湖沼学报（英文）》2019,(2):474-485

Spatial and seasonal variabilities of submesoscale currents in the northeastern South China Sea are investigated by employing a numerical simulation with a horizontal resolution of 1km. The results suggest that submesoscale currents are widespread in the surface mixed layer mainly due to the mixed layer instabilities and frontogenesis. In horizontal, submesoscale currents are generally more active in the north than those in the south, since that active eddies, especially cyclonic eddies, mainly occur in the northern area. Specifically, submesoscale currents are highly intensified in the east of Dongsha Island and south of Taiwan Island. In temporal sense, submesoscale currents are more active in winter than those in summer, since the mixed layer is thicker and more unstable in the winter. The parameterization developed by Fox-Kemper et al. is examined in terms of vertical velocity, and the results suggest that it could reproduce the vertical velocity if mixed layer instability dominates there. This study improves our understanding of the submesoscale dynamics in the South China Sea.  相似文献   

海洋模式中垂直混合参数化方案介绍     

汪雷  王彰贵  凌铁军  左金清 《海洋预报》2014,31(5)

介绍了海洋垂直混合过程参数化方案的发展,以及不同参数化方案在海洋模式中的应用情况。首先,介绍不同垂直混合参数化方案的物理问题、理论依据、数学表达和特征,并对不同参数化方案进行了比较。其次,针对中尺度涡、亚中尺度涡以及波浪、潮流混合参数化的最新研究进展进行了总结并对垂直混合参数化的未来发展提出了一些建议。  相似文献   

浅海浮力平流效应     

杨殿荣  徐静琦  魏皓 《中国海洋大学学报(自然科学版)》1994,(4)

浮力平流直接影响着海洋内部的湍流混合过程，制约着海洋热盐结构的形成和变化。这一过程在浅海，尤其在象渤黄海那样具有较强浮力平流的中国大陆沿岸带海区，是十分重要的。本文主要讨论浅海浮力平流对温跃层和海洋锋的影响，从理论上导出在浮力平流效应作用下期混合锋的公式，并以南黄海为例进行了计算，计算结果是令人满意的。  相似文献   

Thermal and haline fronts in the Yellow/East China Seas: Surface and subsurface seasonality comparison   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Sunghyea Park  Peter C. Chu 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(5):617-638

Seasonal variability of surface and subsurface thermal/haline fronts in the Yellow/East China Seas (YES) has been investigated using three-dimensional monthly-mean temperature and salinity data from U.S. Navy’s Generalized Digital Environmental Model (Version 3.0). The density-compensated Cheju-Yangtze Thermal/Haline Front has (northern and southern) double-tongues. The northern tongue is most evident throughout the depth from December to April. The southern tongue is persistent at the subsurface with conspicuous haline fronts. The thermal (haline) frontal intensity of the northern tongue is controlled mainly by the temperature (salinity) variation on the shoreward (seaward) side of the front. The cold water over the Yangtze Bank is influential in generating the southern tongue and intensifying the Tsushima Thermal Front. The year-round Cheju-Tsushima Thermal Front is evident throughout the depth and intensifies from July to December. The northern arc of the Yangtze Ring Haline Front is manifest in spring and is sustained until summer, whereas the southern one is fully developed in summer because of eastward migration of the Yangtze Diluted Water. The area showing strong frontal intensity in the Chinese Coastal Haline Front shifts seasonally north and south along the Zhejiang-Fujian coast. The Generation and evolution of YES fronts are closely associated with YES circulation (inferred from the linkage of the water masses). Moreover, the subsurface temperature/salinity evolution on the fronts in the Yellow Sea differs from that in the East China Sea owing to local factors such as wintertime vertical mixing and a summertime strong thermocline above the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water.  相似文献   

Phytoplankton blooms and a coastal thermocline boundary along the West Coast of Ireland     

C.M. Roden  R. Raine 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1994,39(6)

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A soil water and heat transfer model including changes in soil frost and thaw fronts     

WANG AiWen  XIE ZhengHui  FENG XiaoBing  TIAN XiangJun  QIN PeiHua 《中国科学:地球科学(英文版)》2014,57(6):1325-1339

Freeze-thaw processes in soils,including changes in frost and thaw fronts(FTFs),are important physical processes.The movement of FTFs affects soil hydrothermal characteristics,as well as energy and water exchanges between the land surface and the atmosphere and hydrothermal processes in the land surface.This paper reduces the issue of soil freezing and thawing to a multiple moving-boundary problem and develops a soil water and heat transfer model which considers the effects of FTF on soil hydrothermal processes.A local adaptive variable-grid method is used to discretize the model.Sensitivity tests based on the hierarchical structure of the Community Land Model(CLM)show that multiple FTFs can be continuously tracked,which overcomes the difficulties of isotherms that cannot simultaneously simulate multiple FTFs in the same soil layer.The local adaptive variable-grid method is stable and offers computational efficiency several times greater than the high-resolution case.The simulated FTF depths,soil temperatures,and soil moisture values fit well with the observed data,which further demonstrates the potential application of this simulation to the land-surface process model.  相似文献   

基于引力模型的海洋锋信息提取   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

平博  苏奋振  杜云艳  孟云闪  苏伟光 《地球信息科学学报》2013,15(2):187-192

海洋锋面是海洋水团特性明显不同的两种或几种水体之间的狭窄过渡带。本文旨在对遥感反演海洋温度场数据(SST),引入引力模型进行海洋锋面的检测。鉴于海洋锋受噪声干扰大,锋面强度小的特点,本文提出了基于引力算法的引力模型。其中,引力算法是将温度数据中的每一个像元点都作为一个独立的天体,其质量对应该像元的温度值,根据引力定律计算3×3区域中,邻域像元对中心点像元的引力和。模型首先对原始数据进行去0处理,为消除对原始数据明暗程度的依赖,对3×3区域数据进行归一化,然后利用函数对归一化后的数据进行增强处理,最后,以引力算法进行锋面检测。验证表明,该模型能有效强化不同区域或水体差异性,并能够有效针对海洋锋信息进行提取,受噪声影响小。  相似文献   

The study on three-dimensional numerical model and fronts of the Jiulong Estuary and the Xiamen Bay   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

LUO Zhibin  PAN Weiran  LI Li  ZHANG Guorong 《海洋学报(英文版)》2012,31(4):55-64

Applying the methods of on-site observation and dynamic model, the research on the fronts at the Jiulong Estuary has been carried out, during which spatial and temporal distribution, dynamic characteristics and formation mechanism of salinity fronts are analyzed and discussed. The research shows that the estuarine fronts mainly lie in the area from the Jiyu Islet to the Haimen Island, outside of Yuweizai to Hulishan cross-section, the near coast of Yuweizai and the south of the Songyu-Gulangyu Channel. The fronts in the former two regions are formed directly by plume, while the one near the coast of Yuweizai is a tidal intrusion front caused by flood current and the one at the south of the Songyu-Gulangyu Channel is the result of current shear transformation. Under normal circumstances, fresh water of the Jiulong River mainly influences the inside of the Xiamen Bay, and when it is in typhoon seasons, plume front can affect the Taiwan Strait and has an effect on the biogeochemical processes in the strait.  相似文献