Processes governing the carbon chemistry during the SAGE experiment     

K.I. Currie  B. MacaskillM.R. Reid  C.S. Law 《Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography》2011,58(6):851-860

Measurements of pCO₂, pH and alkalinity in the surface waters of an iron fertilised patch of sub-Antarctic water were made during SAGE (SOLAS SAGE: Surface-Ocean Lower Atmosphere Studies Air-Sea Gas Experiment). The iron addition induced a minor phytoplankton bloom, however the patch dynamics were dominated by physical processes which suppressed and masked the biological effects. The Lagrangian nature of the experiment allowed the carbonate chemistry in the patch to be followed for 15.5 days, and the relative importance of the biological and physical factors influencing the surface water pCO₂ was estimated. The pCO₂ of the surface waters of the patch increased from 327 ??atm prior to iron addition to 338 ??atm on Day 14, effects of vertical and horizontal mixing offset the 15 ??atm drawdown that would have occurred had the induced biological uptake been the sole factor to influence the pCO₂. The air-sea carbon flux calculated using the measured skin temperature and a piston velocity parameterisation determined during SAGE (Ho et al., 2006) was 98.5% of the flux determined using conventional bulk temperature measurement and the Wanninkhof (1992) piston velocity parameterisation. The skin temperature alone contributed to an 8% increase in the flux compared with that determined using bulk temperature.  相似文献   

热带气旋过程中海-气界面热量交换   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3  

吴迪生  魏建苏  李运芳  张文静  王文娟 《气象科学》2009,29(6):781-786

为探索热带气旋与海洋相互作用,采用国家海洋局南海分局Marex(马瑞克斯)数据浮标实测资料,计算了1986年南海的7个热带气旋海气界面热量交换值.结果表明:热带气旋海气界面热量交换强烈,主要贡献来自潜热通量;热带气旋环流内水温、气温均是下降趋势,气温下降更为明显;夏季热带气旋环流内,感热通量会出现负值,海面有效反射辐射通量出现减弱现象;秋季热带气旋环流内,感热通量和海面有效反射辐射通量显著加强;在热带气旋环流内,海面吸收的短波辐射通量均出现减弱现象;热带气旋环流内受到冷空气影响时,感热变得相当重要,热带气旋表现为对海洋的响应为主.  相似文献   

Intercomparison of Air–Sea Interface Fluxes over the Yellow Sea and Korea Strait: Impact of Tsushima Warm Current     

D. Bala Subrahamanyam  Radhika Ramachandran  S. Indira Rani  P. K. Kunhikrishnan  B. Prasad Kumar 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2008,127(2):333-344

Surface-layer meteorological observations obtained from oceanic buoys over the Korean Strait and the Yellow Sea are used to estimate surface-layer turbulent fluxes of heat, moisture and momentum over the East-Asian Marginal Seas. Special emphasis is paid towards explanation of the impact of the Tsushima warm current flowing through the Korean Strait on air–sea interface fluxes. During the active phase of the Tsushima warm current, when the difference in sea surface temperature and air temperature becomes as large as 8°C, the sensible heat flux increases to a value of about 135 W m⁻², while the latent heat flux is around 200 W m⁻². The study attempts to broaden our understanding on the air-sea interaction processes over the Yellow Sea and Korean Strait.  相似文献   

海气耦合对MJO数值模拟的影响     

赵雨晴  凌健 《气候与环境研究》2020,25(4):353-365

采用一种基于降水异常追踪MJO（Madden–Julian Oscillation）东传的MJO识别方法（MJO Tracking）评估了参与MJOTF/GASS（MJO Task Force/Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment Atmospheric System Study）全球模式比较计划的全海气耦合模式（CNRM-CM）、半海气耦合模式（CNRM-ACM）和大气模式（CNRM-AM）1991～2010年模拟MJO的能力,探究了海气耦合过程对模式模拟MJO能力的影响机理。CNRM-CM模式模拟的MJO结构更加接近观测,该模式不仅具有最高的MJO生成频率,也能够模拟较强的MJO强度以及较远的传播距离。海气耦合过程会造成CNRM-CM和CNRM-ACM模式中印度洋—太平洋暖池区域海温气候态的冷偏差。但是这种海温气候态的偏差基本没有改变模式模拟MJO的能力。CNRM-CM中MJO对流中心东（西）侧存在较强的季节内尺度海温暖（冷）异常,纬向梯度明显,而CNRM-ACM和CNRM-AM中不存在这样的海温东西不对称结构。结果表明在CNRM模式中海气耦合过程调控模式海温季节内尺度变率对模式MJO模拟能力的影响比调控模式海温气候态更加重要。  相似文献   

Hydrographic effects of an intense “medicane” over the central-eastern Mediterranean Sea in 2018     

《Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans》2021

The formation of cyclones over the sea surface is driven by air-sea interaction with feedbacks on wave generation, thermohaline structures, and biochemical properties of upper-ocean layers. In the Mediterranean basin, strong cyclonic systems having tropical-like characteristics are called “medicanes”. The consequences of such events are usually assessed over the land, however, hydrographic effects are particularly difficult to be quantified mostly due to the rarity of oceanographic in-situ monitoring systems. In this study, the hydrographic effects of a high-impact medicane, crossing the central-eastern Mediterranean in late September 2018 are investigated mainly based on Argo float measurements. We traced its hydrographic fingerprint and examined its effects on the upper-layer physical properties by analyzing temperature and salinity profiles from floats that overlapped with its track. Float data is supported by satellite sea surface temperature reanalysis data and meteorological records. The synergistic effects of intense evaporation and vertical mixing mechanisms triggered by the medicane, resulted in abrupt surface cooling, especially in the Ionian and Aegean Seas. A relatively homogenous decrease of temperature in the upper 50-m-depth layer followed, along with the deepening of the mixed-layer depth, corresponding to an estimated per profile average deficit of (-2.72 ± 1.23) x 10⁸ J m⁻² in the ocean heat content. Simultaneously, significant upper-layer freshening occurred because of vertical mixing and heavy rainfall. However, a salinity increase in the subsurface waters was observed after the medicane event, which is associated with both horizontal advection and vertical mixing which followed the weakening of the Atlantic Water signal and the dominance of the Levantine Surface Water in this zone. Our findings highlight strong, short-scale hydrographic alterations made available due to the expansion of the marginal seas operational oceanographic network.  相似文献   

耦合模式FGOALS-s2海洋同化试验模拟的西北太平洋海气相互作用特征     

江洁  周天军  吴波  邹立维 《大气科学》2019,43(3):467-482

观测发现,西北太平洋区域夏季降水—SST存在显著的负相关,主要是由于El Ni?o衰减年西北太平洋异常反气旋持续至夏季,该过程是检验耦合模式性能的重要参照标准。本文利用中国科学院大气物理研究所近期气候预测系统IAP-DecPreS,通过海洋同化试验、大气模式AMIP试验与观测结果的比较,评估海洋同化试验对西北太平洋夏季局地海气相互作用特征的模拟影响。结果表明,海洋同化试验能够模拟出西北太平洋区域夏季降水—SST负相关,但负相关区域范围偏小。其与观测之间的最大差异出现在8月,西北太平洋负降水异常及异常反气旋位置偏东,强度偏弱。这是由于其模拟的El Ni?o衰减年夏季赤道东印度洋正降水异常偏弱且移动至赤道南侧,对流层增温偏弱,对西太平洋的遥相关作用偏弱。AMIP试验未考虑大气对海洋的反馈作用,不能再现西北太平洋降水—SST负相关,无法模拟出El Ni?o衰减年夏季西北太平洋异常反气旋。研究表明,海洋同化试验对西北太平洋区域局地海气相互作用特征的模拟能力较AMIP试验有所提升,其对8月西北太平洋降水与环流场的模拟偏差与东赤道印度洋降水模拟偏差有关。  相似文献   

The SOLAS air-sea gas exchange experiment (SAGE) 2004     

Mike J. Harvey  Cliff S. LawMurray J. Smith  Julie A. HallEdward R. Abraham  Craig L. StevensMark G. Hadfield  David T. Ho  Brian Ward  Stephen D. ArcherJill M. Cainey  Kim I. CurrieDawn Devries  Michael J. Ellwood  Peter HillGraham B. Jones  Dave Katz  Jorma KuparinenBurns Macaskill  William Main  Andrew MarrinerJohn McGregor  Craig McNeilPeter J. Minnett  Scott D. NodderJill Peloquin  Stuart PickmereMatthew H. Pinkerton  Karl A. SafiRona Thompson  Matthew WalkingtonSimon W. Wright  Lori A. Ziolkowski 《Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography》2011,58(6):753-763

The SOLAS air-sea gas exchange experiment (SAGE) was a multiple-objective study investigating gas-transfer processes and the influence of iron fertilisation on biologically driven gas exchange in high-nitrate low-silicic acid low-chlorophyll (HNLSiLC) Sub-Antarctic waters characteristic of the expansive subpolar zone of the southern oceans. This paper provides a general introduction and summary of the main experimental findings. The release site was selected from a pre-voyage desktop study of environmental parameters to be in the south-west Bounty Trough (46.5°S 172.5°E) to the south-east of New Zealand and the experiment was conducted between mid-March and mid-April 2004. In common with other mesoscale iron addition experiments (FeAX’s), SAGE was designed as a Lagrangian study, quantifying key biological and physical drivers influencing the air-sea gas exchange processes of CO₂, DMS and other biogenic gases associated with an iron-induced phytoplankton bloom. A dual tracer SF₆/³He release enabled quantification of both the lateral evolution of a labelled volume (patch) of ocean and the air-sea tracer exchange at tenths of kilometer scale, in conjunction with the iron fertilisation. Estimates from the dual-tracer experiment found a quadratic dependency of the gas exchange coefficient on windspeed that is widely applicable and describe air-sea gas exchange in strong wind regimes. Within the patch, local and micrometeorological gas exchange process studies (100 m scale) and physical variables such as near-surface turbulence, temperature microstructure at the interface, wave properties and windspeed were quantified to further assist the development of gas exchange models for high-wind environments.There was a significant increase in the photosynthetic competence (F_v/F_m) of resident phytoplankton within the first day following iron addition, but in contrast to other FeAX’s, rates of net primary production and column-integrated chlorophyll a concentrations had only doubled relative to the unfertilised surrounding waters by the end of the experiment. After 15 days and four iron additions totalling 1.1 ton Fe²⁺, this was a very modest response compared to other mesoscale iron enrichment experiments. An investigation of the factors limiting bloom development considered co-limitation by light and other nutrients, the phytoplankton seed-stock and grazing regulation. Whilst incident light levels and the initial Si:N ratio were the lowest recorded in all FeAXs to date, there was only a small seed-stock of diatoms (less than 1% of biomass) and the main response to iron addition was by the picophytoplankton. A high rate of dilution of the fertilised patch relative to phytoplankton growth rate, the greater than expected depth of the surface mixed layer and microzooplankton grazing were all considered as factors that prevented significant biomass accumulation. In line with the limited response, the enhanced biological draw-down of pCO₂ was small and masked by a general increase in pCO₂ due to mixing with higher pCO₂ waters. The DMS precursor DMSP was kept in check through grazing activity and in contrast to most FeAX’s dissolved dimethylsulfide (DMS) concentration declined through the experiment. SAGE is an important low-end member in the range of responses to iron addition in FeAX’s. In the context of iron fertilisation as a geoengineering tool for atmospheric CO₂ removal, SAGE has clearly demonstrated that a significant proportion of the low iron ocean may not produce a phytoplankton bloom in response to iron addition.  相似文献   

Air-sea CO₂ fluxes in the southern Yellow Sea: An examination of the continental shelf pump hypothesis   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Liang Xue  Longjun Zhang  Wei-Jun CaiLi-Qing Jiang 《Continental Shelf Research》2011,31(18):1904-1914

The southern Yellow Sea (SYS), located to the north of the East China Sea (ECS), was considered part of the ECS when Tsunogai et al. (1999) proposed the “continental shelf pump” (CSP) hypothesis. However, the original CSP carbon dioxide (CO₂) uptake flux (2.9 mol C m⁻² yr⁻¹) appears to have been overestimated, primarily due to the differences between the SYS and the ECS in terms of their CO₂ system. In this paper, we estimated air-sea CO₂ fluxes in the SYS using the surface water partial pressure of CO₂ (pCO₂) measured in winter, spring, and summer, as well as that estimated in fall via the relationship of pCO₂ with salinity, temperature, and chlorophyll a. The results indicate that overall, the entire investigated area was a net source of atmospheric CO₂ during summer, winter, and fall, whereas it was a net sink during spring. Spatially, the nearshore area was almost a permanent CO₂ source, while the central SYS shifted from being a CO₂ sink in spring to a source in the other seasons of the year. Overall, the SYS is a net source of atmospheric CO₂ on an annual scale, releasing ∼7.38 Tg C (1 Tg=10¹² g) to the atmosphere annually. Thus, the updated CO₂ uptake flux in the combined SYS and ECS is reduced to ∼0.86 mol C m⁻² yr⁻¹. If this value is extrapolated globally following Tsunogai et al. (1999), the global continental shelf would be a sink of ∼0.29 Pg C yr⁻¹, instead of 1 Pg C yr⁻¹ (1 Pg=10¹⁵ g).The SYS as a net annual source of atmospheric CO₂ is in sharp contrast to most mid- and high-latitude continental shelves, which are CO₂ sinks. We argue that unlike the ECS and the North Sea where carbon on the shelf could be exported to the open ocean, the SYS lacks the physical conditions required by the CSP to transport carbon off the shelf effectively. The global validity of the CSP theory is thus questionable.  相似文献   

冬季中国东部海区热通量变化与中国气温降水的关系   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

周林义  徐海明  徐蜜蜜  朱素行 《气象科学》2011,31(5):558-566

利用OAFlux月平均热通量、NCEP/NCAR（1958—2006年）再分析和全国160个站的月降水、气温等资料,采用相关分析、合成分析等方法,分析了中国东部海区海气界面热通量变化特征及其与中国冬、春季降水、气温的关系。研究表明,中国东部海区为潜热通量和感热通量年际变化的关键区,冬季变化最为显著,具有明显的年际和年代际变化特征,热通量的增强趋势明显。热通量的年代际变化与同期冬季中国华南降水存在明显正相关,与华北降水存在负相关、与气温存在显著正相关。1983年气候突变前热通量年际变化与同期中国长江下游地区降水有很好的负相关。突变后热通量年际变化与同期淮河流域降水存在显著负相关;与后期春季中国两河流域降水存在显著负相关,与两河流域气温存在显著正相关。  相似文献   

海表层二氧化碳分压之时间序列研究进展   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

薛亮  于卫东  宁春林  王辉武 《地球科学进展》2013,28(8):859-865

简要总结了海表层二氧化碳分压(pCO2)时间序列的研究方法,重点综述了时间序列研究在确定pCO2控制过程、揭示pCO2年际差异、监测气候事件对pCO2的影响及估算海—气二氧化碳(CO2)通量等方面的研究进展.海表层pCO2时间序列的研究方法大致可以分为2类,一类是基于船舶调查,另一类是基于浮标的CO2自动测定.时间序列研究除了能够定性地记录和追踪一些特殊和偶然的物理和生物过程对pCO2的影响外,还能够定量地给出各种过程对pCO2变化的贡献,这对揭示海洋pCO2的控制机理有着重要意义.年际尺度的时间序列观测表明:人类活动已经造成了海表层pCO2的增加,厄尔尼诺事件和拉尼娜事件对海表层pCO2和海—气CO2通量有明显影响.另外,时间序列研究能够提高海—气CO2通量估算的准确性.  相似文献