A near-inertial current event in the homogeneous deep layer of the northern Sea of Japan during winter     

Michio Watanabe  Toshiyuki Hibiya 《Journal of Oceanography》2018,74(2):209-218

Under strong surface wind forcing during winter, direct current observations in the northern Sea of Japan show the existence of strong near-inertial currents in the deep water that is characterized by the extremely homogeneous vertical structures of temperature and salinity. However, the mechanism generating internal waves in the deep water of the northern Sea of Japan has not been well understood. In this study, to clarify the dynamical link between the surface wind forcing and near-inertial currents in the deep water of the northern Sea of Japan, we drive a general circulation model taking into account realistic wind stress, ocean bottom and land topography. In the northern Sea of Japan, the numerical results show that vertically coherent horizontal currents with a speed of ~ 0.05 m s^?1 are excited throughout the homogeneous deep water. A two-layer model successfully reproduces the pattern of the horizontal current velocities shown by the general circulation model, indicating that internal waves emanate westward from the northwestern coast of Japan through coastal adjustment to the strong wind forcing event and, while propagating into the ocean interior, they excite evanescent near-inertial response throughout the lower layer below the interface.  相似文献   

Theoretical and experimental investigation of nickel isotopic fractionation in species relevant to modern and ancient oceans     

Toshiyuki Fujii  Frédéric Moynier  Minori Abe 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2011,75(2):469-7643

Nickel plays a central role as an enzyme co-factor in the metabolism of methanogenic Archaea. Methanogens can fractionate Ni isotopes during assimilation, opening the possibility of using the stable isotopic composition of Ni as a biomarker. However, other sources of Ni isotopic variations need to be evaluated before one can establish Ni isotopes as an unambiguous tracer of methanogenesis in the rock record. Equilibrium exchange of Ni between the different species present in the ocean is a potential source of isotopic fractionation. Through controlled laboratory experiments and theoretical calculations, we quantify equilibrium Ni isotope fractionation between different species relevant to the modern and ancient ocean: Ni(H₂O)₆²⁺, Ni(H₂O)₁₈²⁺, NiOH(H₂O)₅⁺, Ni(OH)₂(H₂O)₄, NiCl(H₂O)₅⁺, cis-NiCl₂(H₂O)₄, trans-NiCl₂(H₂O)₄, NiHS(H₂O)₅⁺, Ni(HS)₂(H₂O)₄, NiSO₄(H₂O)₄, NiHCO₃(H₂O)₄⁺, NiCO₃(H₂O)₄, and organic ligands (crown ether and oxalic acid). The magnitude of ligand-controlled Ni isotopic fractionation, approximately 1.25‰/amu (2.5‰ for the ⁶⁰Ni/⁵⁸Ni ratio), is similar to that previously measured in cultures of methanogenic Archaea.  相似文献   

Laboratory Enrichment of Radioactive Assemblages and Estimation of Thorium and Uranium Radioactivity in Fractions Separated from Placer Sands in Southeast Bangladesh     

Takayuki Sasaki  Mohammad Rajib  Masafumi Akiyoshi  Taishi Kobayashi  Ikuji Takagi  Toshiyuki Fujii  Md. Mashrur Zaman 《Natural Resources Research》2015,24(2):209-220

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Vegetation and climate variability in East Asia driven by low-latitude oceanic forcing during the middle to late Holocene     

Jaesoo Lim  Toshiyuki Fujiki 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2011,30(19-20):2487-2497

At centennial to millennial timescales, little is known of C₃ and C₄ plant productivity’s responses to past regional climate changes and the dominant forcing factors during the Holocene, although large-scale changes in glacial-interglacial periods have been attributed to changes in aridity, temperature, and CO₂ concentration. We investigated the δ¹³C of TOC, C/N ratios, and pollen in samples from a wetland on Jeju Island, Korea. The bulk isotopic signal ranging from ?17‰ to ?29‰ was partitioned into C₃ and C₄ plant signals by using a binary mixing model and calculating separate organic carbon-accumulation rates for C₃ and C₄ plants (OCAR₃ and OCAR₄) during the last 6500 years. Pollen data indicated that the temperate deciduous broadleaved trees replaced grassland dominated by Artemisia, dry-tolerant grass, and further expanded in the maar. The long-term decreasing trend of Artemisia-dominated grassland was similar to those of δ¹³C values and OCAR₄. The multi-centennial to millennial variability superimposed on the gradual increasing trend of OCAR₃ was inversely correlated with those of the sea surface temperature (SST) in the western tropical Pacific (WTP) and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) activity, suggesting that C₃ plants have stronger sensitivity to regional climate change driven by oceanic forcing. Our data suggest that vegetation changes in a coastal area in East Asia were affected by monsoonal changes coupled with SST in WTP and ENSO activity. The vegetation change on Jeju Island varied quite differently from change in the westerly pathway, suggesting only a weak influence from high-latitude-driven atmospheric circulation changes. We conclude that centennial- to millennial-scale climate changes in coastal regions of East Asia during the mid- to late-Holocene may have been mainly controlled by low-latitudinal oceanic forcing, including forcing by SST and ENSO activity.  相似文献   

Effects of mass source/sink at the western boundary on the wind-driven gyres: Implications for the ventilation of the north pacific intermediate layer through convection in the Okhotsk Sea and tidal mixing at the Kuril Straits     

Tomohiro Nakamura  Takahiro Toyoda  Yoichi Ishikawa  Toshiyuki Awaji 《Journal of Oceanography》2010,66(1):41-60

A steady quasi-geostrophic 2.5-layer model, forced by both Ekman pumping and a mass source/sink situated at the western boundary has been constructed to investigate the effect of diapycnal transport due to convection in the Okhotsk Sea and tidal mixing at the Kuril Straits on the intermediate layer in the North Pacific. The model illustrates a combined effect of the wind-driven and mass-driven circulations. First, net mass input induces a “barotropic” mode inter-gyre flow along the western boundary through the dynamical influence of Kelvin waves. This flow creates characteristic curves (geostrophic contours) that facilitate inter-gyre communication through the western boundary layer from the location of the mass source to the subtropical gyre. Due to the effect of wind-driven circulation, the offshore part turns eastward into the interior, encircles the outer rim of the region (which would otherwise be the pool region in the absence of mass input), and then encounters the western boundary. Eventually, the water fed into the lower layer flows mostly along this path and later flows away to the equatorial region. Conversely, in the upper layer, water is fed from the equator to the subtropics, and to the subpolar interior region through the western boundary current. The water then circulates along the outer rim and is absorbed into the mass sink. The model is controlled mainly by three nondimensional parameters: (1) the ratio of net mass input rate to the maximum Sverdrup transport (Q/T _Sv ^max ), which affects the inter-gyre communication by altering the paths of geostrophic contours, (2) the ratio of a mass input rate into the lower layer to that in total (Q ₂/Q), which controls the vertical structure of the inter-gyre flow, and (3) the measure of the wind forcing effect relative to the β effect, which determines the horizontal extent of the area influenced by the mass input. The other parameter regimes with respect to Q/T _Sv ^max and Q ₂/Q are also presented.  相似文献   

Under‐ice salinity and stable isotope distribution of Saroma‐ko Lagoon,Hokkaido, northern Japan     

Maki Morimoto  Kyoko Kawanobe  Osamu Abe  Takayoshi Kawai  Toshiyuki Kawamura  Kunio Shirasawa 《水文研究》2010,24(7):904-916

In winter, lakes and lagoons at high altitudes or high latitudes have interesting hydrological cycles that differ from those in other seasons or in other regions, because water surfaces are covered with ice. Hydrological balances of lakes and lagoons are complex dynamic systems, and to elucidate them, isotopic tracers of water have been used as effective tools along with observations of precipitation, evaporation, inflows, and outflows. Here, to understand hydrological processes during freezing periods in the brackish Saroma‐ko Lagoon, Hokkaido, northern Japan, we examined horizontal and vertical distributions of salinity and isotope compositions of lagoon water and ice in 2005 and 2006. Horizontal and vertical gradients of salinity and isotope compositions were observed from the river mouth to the sea channel, and factors determining these distributions were considered. The mixing of freshwater and seawater and a freezing effect were presumed to be factors in relationships between salinity and isotopes and in relationships between surface waters and ice just above the water. A simple box model for water balance was constructed based on these putative factors to reproduce the distributions of salinity and isotope compositions of surface waters and ice. An evaluation of the model revealed that this hydrological system is controlled primarily by horizontal advection of the epilimnion, freshwater influx, and the ice growth rate. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Numerical study of the meridional overturning circulation with “mixing hotspots” in the Pacific Ocean     

Takahiro Endoh  Toshiyuki Hibiya 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(3):259-266

Using an idealized ocean general circulation model, we examine the effect of “mixing hotspots” (localized regions of intense diapycnal mixing) predicted based on internal wave-wave interaction theory (Hibiya et al., 2006) on the meridional overturning circulation of the Pacific Ocean. Although the assumed diapycnal diffusivity in the mixing hotspots is a little larger than the predicted value, the upwelling in the mixing hotspots is not sufficient to balance the deep-water production; out of 17 Sv of the downwelled water along the southern boundary, only 9.2 Sv is found to upwell in the mixing hotspots. The imbalance as much as 7.8 Sv is compensated by entrainment into the surface mixed layer in the vicinity of the downwelling region. As a result, the northward transport of the deep water crossing the equator is limited to 5.5 Sv, much less than estimated from previous current meter moorings and hydrographic surveys. One plausible explanation for this is that the magnitude of the meridional overturning circulation of the Pacific Ocean has been overestimated by these observations. We raise doubts about the validity of the previous ocean general circulation models where diapycnal diffusivity is assigned ad hoc to attain the current magnitude suggested from current meter moorings and hydrographic surveys.  相似文献   

Study of internal wave generation by tide-topography interaction     

Toshiyuki Hibiya 《Journal of Oceanography》1990,46(1):21-32

The generation mechanism of internal waves by a relatively strong tidal flow over a sill is clarified analytically. Special attention is directed to the role of the tidal advection effect, which is examined by use of characteristics. An internal wave which propagates upstream is gradually formed through interference of infinitesimal amplitude internal waves (elementary waves) emanating from the sill at each instant of time. In the accelerating (or decelerating) stage of the tidal flow, the effective amplification of the internal wave takes place as the internal Froude number exceeds (or falls below) unity because during this period the internal wave slowly travels downstream (or upstream) while crossing over the sill where elementary waves are efficiently superimposed. In fact, the variability in the internal wave field actually observed in a realistic situation (Stellwagen Bank in Massachusetts Bay) is shown to be satisfactorily interpreted in terms of this mechanism. Furthermore, by using this analytical model, the relation between the strength of the tidal advection effect and the resulting internal waveform is clarified. This theory is easily extended to include a vertically sheared steady flow. In this case, although the fundamental generation mechanism is the same as above, the amplitude of the elementary wave varies with time depending on the relative direction of the tidal flow and steady shear flow, so that the internal wave field over the sill differs markedly between the ebb and flood tidal phases. As an example, the internal wave generation process over the sill in the Strait of Gibraltar is qualitatively discussed on the basis of this analytical model. The effect of vertical mixing caused by breaking of these large-amplitude internal waves on the coastal environment is also pointed out. In particular, a brief discussion is made on the control of water exchange by the fortnightly modulation of tidal mixing processes at the sills and constrictions in channels connecting freshwater sources with the ocean.  相似文献   

Numerical study of enhanced energy dissipation near a seamount     

Nobuyuki Iwamae  Toshiyuki Hibiya  Yoshihiro Niwa 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(6):851-858

Using a two-dimensional primitive equation model, we examine nonlinear responses of a semidiurnal tidal flow impinging on a seamount with a background Garrett-Munk-like (GM-like) internal wavefield. It is found that horizontally elongated pancake-like structures of high vertical wavenumber near-inertial current shear are created both in the near-field (the region over the slope of the seamount) and far-field (the region over the flat bottom of the ocean). An important distinction is that the high vertical wavenumber near-inertial current shear is amplified only at mid-latitudes in the far-field (owing to a parametric subharmonic instability (PSI)), whereas it is amplified both at mid-and high-latitudes (above the latitude where PSI can occur) in the near-field. In order to clarify the generating mechanism for the strong shear in the near-field, additional numerical experiments are carried out with the GM-like background internal waves removed. The experiments show that the strong shear is also created, indicating that it is not caused by the interaction between the background GM-like internal waves and the semidiurnal internal tides. One possible explanation is proposed for the amplification of high vertical wavenumber near-inertial current shear in the near-field where tide residual flow resulting from tide-topography interaction plays an important role in transferring energy from high-mode internal tides to near-inertial internal waves.  相似文献   

Three-dimensional numerical experiments on tidal exchange through a narrow strait in a homogeneous and a stratified sea     

Norihisa Imasato  Shinzou Fujio  Qian Zhang  Toshiyuki Awaji  Kazunori Akitomo 《Journal of Oceanography》1994,50(2):119-139

We have investigated the three-dimensional Lagrangian motion of water particles related with tidal exchange between two basins with a constant depth connected through a narrow strait and the effects of density stratification on the exchange processes by tracking a number of the labeled particles. Tide-induced transient eddies (TITEs), which are similar to those in two-dimensional basin, are generated behind the headlands. Upwelling appears around the center of the eddy and sinking around the boundary. When the basins are filled with homogeneous water, a pair of vortices are produced in the vertical cross section of the strait due to bottom stress, with upwellings along the side walls of the strait and sinking in the center of the strait. These circulations form the horizontally convergent field in the cross-strait direction in the upper layers while the horizontal divergence takes place in the bottom layer. These vertical water-motions produce the three-dimensional distribution of velocity shear and phase lag of the tidal current around the strait, and the Lagrangian drifts of water particles become large. As a result, water exchange through the strait is greatly enhanced: The water exchange rate reaches 94.1% which is much larger than that obtained in the vertically integrated two-dimensional model. When the basins are stratified, the stable stratification suppresses the vertical motion so that a pair of vertical vortices are confined in the lower layers. This leads to a decrease in the exchange rate, down to 88.6%. Our numerical results show that the three-dimensional structure of tidal currents should be taken into account in tidal exchange through a narrow strait.  相似文献