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We analyze the space-and-time variability of the meridional heat transport in the North Atlantic. The contribution of various
mechanisms to the integral meridional heat transport (MHT) is estimated. The key role played by the drift transport of the
Tropical Atlantic in the formation of the meridional oceanic heat transport is confirmed. On the basis of the general analysis
of estimations obtained by various authors according to the data accumulated for 1870–2008 and the results of numerical analyses
based on the data of NCEP/NCAR reanalysis, we show that the long-term average meridional drift heat (mass) transport attains its maximum values equal to (1.6 ± 0.1)
PW [(17.4 ± 1.5) Sv] in the vicinity of 12.5°N in the Tropical Atlantic. The contribution of the heat transport caused by
the horizontal Sverdrup circulation to the integral meridional heat transport is maximum in the vicinity of 30° N. On the
average, it is equal to ∼ 40%. In the Subtropical Atlantic, the meridional heat transport varies with a period of ∼ 50–70 yr.
The minimum value of the integral meridional heat transport was attained in the mid-1960s and its maximum value was at attained
at the beginning of the 1990s. The location of the center of Azores pressure maximum makes it possible to conclude that the
intensification of the total meridional heat transport in the Subtropical Atlantic on these time scales is accompanied by
the displacement of the center of the North Subtropical anticyclonic gyre in the southwest direction. 相似文献
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By using the data of a standard section made along 24.5°N in the Subtropical Atlantic within the framework of the World-Ocean-Circulation
Experiment, we compute the meridional heat transport. In agreement with the major part of published estimates obtained according
to the data of direct oceanographic measurements, it is approximately equal to 1.1 PW. The meridional heat transport along
24.5°N is caused mainly by the quasistationary meridional circulation with fairly stable structure. At the same time, we discovered
the intense seasonal variability of some components of the meridional heat transport. The contribution of eddy heat flows
to the integral transport is insignificant.
Dedicated to the jubilee of Prof. Viktorina Fedorovna Sukhovei
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Translated from Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Zhurnal, No. 1, pp. 3–15, January–February, 2006. 相似文献
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On the basis of the contemporary array of oceanographic and hydrometeorological data, we compute the characteristics of variations
of the Gulf-Stream transport in 1950–2004. The role played by the low-frequency oscillations of vorticity of the wind field
and turbulent heat fluxes in the North Atlantic in the formation of the analyzed variations is estimated. We reveal a significant
(on a 5% confidence level) positive linear trend of the monthly average Gulf-Stream transport manifested in the increase in
the Gulf-Stream transport by 13 Sv for the investigated period. On the basis of the established estimates, we make a conclusion
that about a quarter of the interannual variations of the Gulf-Stream transport is caused by the low-frequency oscillations
of vorticity of the wind field in the Subtropical Atlantic. Moreover, the Gulf-Stream transport is delayed relative to the
wind oscillations by about 2 yr. An important role in the changes in the Gulf-Stream transport is played by the response of
the system of west boundary currents to the quasiperiodic action of turbulent heat fluxes on the surface of the ocean connected
with the North-Atlantic Oscillation. The intensification of turbulent heat fluxes in the Northern Subpolar Cyclonic Gyre and
their weakening in the north part of the Subtropical Anticyclonic Gyre are accompanied by the intensification of the Gulf
Stream observed after 3–5 yr. The anomalies of turbulent heat fluxes of the opposite sign are followed by weakening of the
Gulf Stream also after a period of 3–5 yr. We also mention a potentially important role played the Pacific decadal oscillation
in maintaining the decadal variations of the intensity of Gulf Stream. The influence of this oscillation on the Gulf-Stream
transport is realized both via the changes in the wind field in different phases of oscillations and due to its influence
on the heat exchange of the ocean with the atmosphere. 相似文献
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On the basis of the climatic array of hydrological annual and monthly average data on temperature and the data of satellite
observations of the surface temperature of the ocean, we refine the annual average structure of the temperature fronts and
study their seasonal variability in the east part of the Tropical Atlantic in the meridional sections made along 30, 20, and
10°W, 0°, and 10°E. It is shown that the maximum intensity and seasonal variations are typical of the North Subequatorial
and South Tropical Fronts varying with predominant annual period. We revealed a delay of 2–3 months in the attainment of the
maximum intensity of the South Tropical and South Subequatorial Fronts in the west-east direction. Various mechanisms specifying
the seasonal variability of the surface and subsurface North and South Subequatorial Fronts are discussed. There exists good
agreement between the specific features of the seasonal variability of characteristics of the fronts established according
to the hydrological and satellite data.
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Translated from Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Zhurnal, No. 2, pp. 46–59, March–April, 2005. 相似文献
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《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2000,47(11):2111-2139
Heat fluxes are estimated across transatlantic sections made at 4°30′S and 7°30′N in January–March 1993, following Hall and Bryden (1982. Deep-Sea Research 29, 339–359). Particular care is given to the computation of Ekman volume and heat fluxes, which are assessed both (a) from the windstress data for the period of the cruise and (b) from the comparison between geostrophic and Vessel Mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (VM-ADCP) velocities. In contrast with previous studies, the two estimates for Ekman fluxes do not converge for either section: (a) (11.5±0.5 Sv; 1.01±0.05 PW) across 7°30′N and (−9.3±1.2 Sv; −0.85±0.12 PW) across 4°30′S when windstress data at the date of the hydrographic stations are used; (b) (6.3±1.1 Sv; 0.56±0.09 PW) across 7°30′N and (−3.4±3.0 Sv; −0.35±0.24 PW) across 4°30′N when the ageostrophic transport above the thermocline is used. The divergence would have been even greater at 4°30′S if the strong ageostrophic signal beneath the thermocline, which brings a transport of (8.4 Sv; 0.82 PW), had been considered. The corresponding total meridional heat fluxes are: (a) 1.40±0.16 PW and (b) 0.95±0.20 PW across 7°30′N, (a) 1.05±0.12 PW and (b) 1.67±0.14 PW (2.39±0.14 PW when the subthermocline ageostrophic transport is taken into account) across 4°30′S.The estimates based on windstress data are compared with the results from an inverse model (Lux and Mercier, 1999) to show the importance of the heat flux due to the deviation of the local depth-averaged potential temperature from its average over the section, which is neglected in the Hall and Bryden (1982. Deep-Sea Research 29, 339–359) method but is not negligible in our computation in which we do not isolate the transport of the western boundary current east of the 200 m isobath; this corrective flux amounts here to −0.19 PW across 7°30′N and 0.33 PW across 4°30′S.The seasonal variability of the meridional heat flux across 7°30′N is studied through the hydrographic data collected during the ETAMBOT 1–2 cruises, which repeated the 7°30′N section west of 35°W in September 1995 and April 1996. When the section is completed east of 35°W with CITHER 1 data and when windstress data are used for the computation of the Ekman transport, the estimates for the meridional heat fluxes are 0.20±0.14 PW in September 1995 and 1.69±0.27 PW in April 1996. The estimates fit well with results from numerical models. 相似文献
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《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2007,54(8):1402-1420
Fourteen temperature sections collected between July 2002 and May 2006 are analyzed to obtain estimates of the meridional heat transport variability of the South Atlantic Ocean. The methodology proposed in Part I is used to calculate the heat transport from temperature data obtained from high-density XBT profiles taken along transects from Cape Town, South Africa to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Salinity is estimated from Argo profiles and CTD casts for each XBT temperature observation using statistical relationships between temperature, latitude, longitude, and salinity computed along constant-depth surfaces. Full-depth temperature/salinity profiles are obtained by extending the profiles to the bottom of the ocean using deep climatological data. The meridional transport is then determined by using the standard geostrophic method, applying NCEP-derived Ekman transports, and requiring that salt flux through the Bering Straits be conserved. The results from the analysis indicate a mean meridional heat transport of 0.54 PW (PW=1015 W) with a standard deviation of 0.11 PW. The geostrophic component of the heat flux has a marked annual cycle following the variability of the Brazil Malvinas Confluence Front, and the geostrophic annual cycle is 180° out of phase with the annual cycle observed in the Ekman fluxes. As a result, the total heat flux shows significant interannual variability with only a small annual cycle. Uncertainties due to different wind products and locations of the sections are independent of the methodology used. 相似文献
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The objective of the paper is to use the data collected along two meridional sections (45° E and 57°30′ E) during the austral
summer (January–March) 2004 to understand the influence of seabed topography across the Madagascar and Southwest Indian Ridges
on hydrographic parameters. The study was supplemented by World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
data collected during February–March 1996 along 30° E, as well as Levitus climatology. A southward shift of 2° latitude (between
45° E and 57°30′ E) was recorded for the two predominant frontal structures, i.e., the Agulhas Return Front and Southern Subtropical
Front, which is attributed to the influence of seabed topography on hydrographic parameters. No significant spatial variation
of these fronts was noted between the 30° E and 45° E meridional sections. Between latitudes 31° S and 42° S, the temperature
and salinity structures show deepening over the ridges. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current core was detected between 40°15′ S
and 43° S. 相似文献
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On the basis of processing of the oceanographic data accumulated for the water area of the North Atlantic in 1950–1999 (∼500,000
stations), we study seasonal and interannual variations of the principal characteristics of pycnocline within the range of
σt = 25.5–27.5 conventional density units. It is shown that the interannual oscillations of these characteristics in the entire
analyzed layer can be regarded as a superposition of fluctuations with periods from 2–3 to 10–12 yr. The typical ranges of
these fluctuations for the depths of occurrence of isopycnic surfaces and the corresponding temperature and salinity are equal
to 20–25 m, 1–1.5°C, and 0.25‰, respectively. The intensification of atmospheric circulation at middle latitudes is accompanied
by the simultaneous deepening of the pycnocline and its heating in the central part of the North Subtropical Anticyclonic
Gyre. At the same time, the process of weakening of the atmospheric circulation leads to the rise of the pycnocline and its
cooling. The complete cycle of interaction of the North-Atlantic Oscillation with the anomalies of isopycnic characteristics
(with regard for the period of their advection) is equal to ∼6–8 yr.
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Translated from Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Zhurnal, No. 2, pp. 29–48, March–April, 2007. 相似文献
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Variation of the southward interior flow of the North Pacific subtropical gyre,as revealed by a repeat hydrographic survey 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Akira Nagano Hiroshi Ichikawa Yasushi Yoshikawa Shoichi Kizu Kimio Hanawa 《Journal of Oceanography》2012,68(2):361-368
Baroclinic variations of the southward flow in the interior region of the North Pacific subtropical gyre are presented with
five hydrographic sections from San Francisco to near Japan during 2004–2006. The volume transport averaged temperature of
the interior flow, which varies vigorously by a maximum of 0.8°C, is negatively correlated with the transport in the layer
of density 24.5–26.5σ
θ, associated with changes in the vertical current structure. Transport variation in this density layer is thus mainly responsible
for the thermal impact of the interior flow on the heat transport of the subtropical gyre. 相似文献
10.
《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2007,54(8):1390-1401
Heat transports estimated CTD data collected during the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) along the January 1993 30°S hydrographic transect (A10) and the output from a numerical model show a mean heat transport of 0.40 and 0.55±0.24 PW (standard deviation), respectively. The model shows a large annual cycle in heat transport (more than 30% of the variance) with a maximum (minimum) heat transport in July (February) of 0.68 (0.41) PW. Using these data, a method is proposed and evaluated to calculate the heat transport from temperature data obtained from a trans-basin section of expendable bathythermographs (XBTs) profiles. In this method, salinity is estimated from Argo profiles and CTD casts for each XBT temperature observation using statistical relationships between temperature, latitude, longitude and salinity computed along constant-depth surfaces. Full-depth temperature/salinity profiles are obtained by extending the profiles to the bottom of the ocean using deep climatological data. The meridional transport is then determined by using the standard geostrophic method, applying NCEP-derived Ekman transports, and requiring that the salt flux through the Bering Straits be conserved. The results indicate that the methods described here can provide heat transport estimates with a maximum uncertainty of ±0.18 PW (1 PW=1015 W). Most of this uncertainty is due to the climatology used to estimate the deep structure and issues related to not knowing the absolute velocity field and most especially characterizing barotropic motions. Nevertheless, when the methodology is applied to temperatures collected along 30°S (A10) and direct model integrations, the results are very promising. Results from the numerical model suggest that ageostrophic non-Ekman motions can contribute less than 0.05 PW to heat transport estimates in the South Atlantic. 相似文献
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Horizontal and meridional volume transports on timescales from intra-seasonal to interannual in the North Pacific subarctic
region were investigated using a reanalysis dataset for 1993–2001 that was constructed from an assimilation of the TOPEX altimeter
and in situ data into an eddy-permitting North Pacific ocean general circulation model. The barotropic flow is excited along east of
the Emperor Seamounts by the western intensification dynamics. The volume transport of this flow compensates for that across
the interior region east of the Seamounts below the summit depth of the Seamounts. The Oyashio, which is also considered as
a compensation flow for the transport in the whole interior region, includes baroclinic as well as barotropic components.
Baroclinic transports in the whole interior region exceed those in the western boundary region in the upper (200–1000 m) and
lower (2000–5000 m) layers, and the total transport is northward (southward) in the upper (lower) layer. These excesses of
the baroclinic transport are balanced by a vertical transport of the meridional overturn. The meridional overturn has a complementary
relation to the basin-scale baroclinic circulation in the North Pacific subactic region.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Recent changes in the North Atlantic circulation simulated with eddy-permitting and eddy-resolving ocean models 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Robert Marsh Beverly A. de Cuevas Andrew C. Coward Julien Jacquin Joel J.-M. Hirschi Yevgeny Aksenov A.J. George Nurser Simon A. Josey 《Ocean Modelling》2009,28(4):226-239
Three eddy-permitting (1/4°) versions and one eddy-resolving (1/12°) version of the OCCAM ocean model are used to simulate the World Ocean circulation since 1985. The first eddy-permitting simulation has been used extensively in previous studies, and provides a point of reference. A second, improved, eddy-permitting simulation is forced in the same manner as the eddy-resolving simulation, with a dataset based on a blend of NCEP re-analysis and satellite data. The third eddy-permitting simulation is forced with a different dataset, based on the ERA-40 re-analysis data. Inter-comparison of these simulations in the North Atlantic clarifies the relative importance of resolution and choice of forcing dataset, for simulating the mean state and recent variability of the basin-scale circulation in that region. Differences between the first and second eddy-permitting simulations additionally reveal an erroneous influence of sea ice on surface salinity, dense water formation, and the meridional overturning circulation. Simulations are further evaluated in terms of long-term mean ocean heat transport at selected latitudes (for which hydrographic estimates are available) and sea surface temperature errors (relative to observations). By these criteria, closest agreement with observations is obtained for the eddy-resolving simulation. In this simulation, there is also a weak decadal variation in mid-latitudes, with heat transport strongest, by around 0.2 PW, in the mid-1990s. In two of the eddy-permitting simulations, by contrast, heat transport weakens through the study period, by up to 0.4 PW in mid-latitudes. The most notable changes of heat transport in all simulations are linked to a weakening of the subpolar gyre, rather than changes in the meridional overturning circulation. It is concluded that recent changes in the structure of mid-latitude heat transport in the North Atlantic are more accurately represented if eddies are explicitly resolved. 相似文献
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《Ocean Modelling》2003,5(2):91-127
The Hamburg Ocean Primitive Equation model has undergone significant development in recent years. Most notable is the treatment of horizontal discretisation which has undergone transition from a staggered E-grid to an orthogonal curvilinear C-grid. The treatment of subgridscale mixing has been improved by the inclusion of a new formulation of bottom boundary layer (BBL) slope convection, an isopycnal diffusion scheme, and a Gent and McWilliams style eddy-induced mixing parameterisation. The model setup described here has a north pole over Greenland and a south pole on the coast of the Weddell Sea. This gives relatively high resolution in the sinking regions associated with the thermohaline circulation. Results are presented from a 450 year climatologically forced integration. The forcing is a product of the German Ocean Model Intercomparison Project and is derived from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting reanalysis. The main emphasis is on the model’s representation of key quantities that are easily associated with the ocean’s role in the global climate system. The global and Atlantic northward poleward heat transports have peaks of 1.43 and 0.84 PW, at 18° and 21° N respectively. The Atlantic meridional overturning streamfunction has a peak of 15.7 Sv in the North Atlantic and an outflow of 11.9 Sv at 30° S. Comparison with a simulation excluding BBL shows that the scheme is responsible for up to a 25% increase in North Atlantic heat transport, with significant improvement of the depths of convection in the Greenland, Labrador and Irminger Seas. Despite the improvements, comparison with observations shows the heat transport still to be too weak. Other outstanding problems include an incorrect Gulf Stream pathway, a too strong Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and a too weak renewal of Antarctic Intermediate Water. Nevertheless, the model has been coupled to the atmospheric GCM ECHAM5 and run successfully for over 250 years without any surface flux corrections. 相似文献
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Fei Chai Mingshun Jiang Richard T. Barber Richard C. Dugdale Yi Chao 《Journal of Oceanography》2003,59(4):461-475
The interdecadal climate variability affects marine ecosystems in both the subtropical and subarctic gyres, consequently the
position of the Transition Zone Chlorophyll Front (TZCF). A three-dimensional physical-biological model has been used to study
interdecadal variation of the TZCF using a retrospective analysis of a 30-year (1960–1990) model simulation. The physical-biological
model is forced with the monthly mean heat flux and surface wind stress from the COADS. The modeled winter mixed layer depth
(MLD) shows the largest increase between 30°N and 40°N in the central North Pacific, with a value of 40–60% higher during
1979–90 relative to 1964–75 values. The winter Ekman pumping velocity difference between 1979–90 and 1964–75 shows the largest
increase located between 30°N and 45°N in the central and eastern North Pacific. The modeled winter surface nitrate difference
between 1979–90 and 1964–75 shows increase in the latitudinal band between 30°N and 45°N from the west to the east (135°E–135°W),
the modeled nitrate concentration is about 10 to 50% higher during the period of 1979–90 relative to 1964–75 values depending
upon locations. The increase in the winter surface nitrate concentration during 1979-90 is caused by a combination of the
winter MLD increase and the winter Ekman pumping enhancement. The modeled nitrate concentration increase after 1976–77 enhances
primary productivity in the central North Pacific. Enhanced primary productivity after the 1976–77 climatic shift contributes
higher phytoplankton biomass and therefore elevates chlorophyll level in the central North Pacific. Increase in the modeled
chlorophyll expand the chlorophyll transitional zone and push the TZCF equatorward.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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The circulation of intermediate and deep waters in the Philippine Sea west of the Izu-Ogasawara-Mariana-Yap Ridge is estimated
with use of an inverse model applied to the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Hydrographic Program data set. Above
1500 m depth, the subtropical gyre is dominant, but the circulation is split in small cells below the thermocline, causing
multiple zonal inflows of intermediate waters toward the western boundary. The inflows along 20°N and 26°N carry the North
Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) of 11 × 109 kg s−1 in total, at the density range of 26.5σθ–36.7σ2 (approximately 500–1500 m depths), 8 × 109 kg s−1 of the NPIW circulate within the subtropical gyre, whereas the rest is conveyed to the tropics and the South China Sea. The
inflow south of 15°N carries the Tropical Salinity Minimum water of 35 × 109 kg s−1, nearly half of which return to the east through a narrow undercurrent at 15–17°N, and the rest is transported into the lower
part of the North Equatorial Countercurrent. Below 1500 m depth, the deep circulation regime is anti-cyclonic. At the density
range of 36.7σ2, – 45.845σ4 (approximately 1500–3500 m depths), deep waters of 17 × 109 kg s−1 flow northward, and three quarters of them return to the east at 16–24°N. The remainder flows further north of 24°N, then
turns eastward out of the Philippine Sea, together with a small amount of subarctic-origin North Pacific Deep Water (NPDW)
which enters the Philippine Sea through the gap between the Izu Ridge and Ogasawara Ridge. The full-depth structure and transportation
of the Kuroshio in total and net are also examined. It is suggested that low potential vorticity of the Subtropical Mode Water
is useful for distinguishing the net Kuroshio flow from recirculation flows.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Examined here is a hypothetical idea of the splitting of the subtropical gyre in the western North Pacific on the basis of two independent sources of data,i.e., the long-term mean geopotential-anomaly data compiled by the Japanese Oceanographic Data Center and the synoptic hydrographic (STD) data taken by the Hakuho Maru in the source region of the Kuroshio and the Subtropical Countercurrent in the period February and March 1974. Both of the synoptic and the long-term mean dynamic-topographic maps reveal three major ridges, which indicate that the western subtropical gyre is split into three subgyres. Each subgyre is made up of the pair of currents, the Kuroshio and the Kuroshio Countercurrent, the Subtropical Countercurrent and a westward flow lying just south of the Countercurrent (18°N–21°N), and the northern part of the North Fquatorial Current and an eastward flow at around 18°N. The subgyres are more or less composed of a train of anticyclonic eddies with meridional scales of between 300 and 600 km, so that the volume transport of the subgyres varies by a factor of two or more from section to section. The upper-water characteristics also support the splitting of the subtropical gyre; the water characteristics are fairly uniform within each subgyre, but markedly different between them. The northern rim of each subgyre appears as a sharp density front accompanied by an eastward flow. The bifurcations of the sharp density fronts across the western boundary current indicate that the major part of the surface waters in the North Equatorial Countercurrent is not brought into the Kuroshio. The western boundary current appears as a continuous feature of high speed, but the waters transported change discontinuously at some places. 相似文献
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《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2001,48(3):605-638
Hydrographic, geochemical, and direct velocity measurements along two zonal (7.5°N and 4.5°S) and two meridional (35°W and 4°W) lines occupied in January–March, 1993 in the Atlantic are combined in an inverse model to estimate the circulation. At 4.5°S, the Warm Water (potential temperature θ>4.5°C) originating from the South Atlantic enters the equatorial Atlantic, principally at the western boundary, in the thermocline-intensified North Brazil Undercurrent (33±2.7×106 m3 s−1 northward) and in the surface-intensified South Equatorial Current (8×106 m3 s−1 northward) located to the east of the North Brazil Undercurrent. The Ekman transport at 4.5°S is southward (10.7±1.5×106 m3 s−1). At 7.5°N, the Western Boundary Current (WBC) (17.9±2×106 m3 s−1) is weaker than at 4.5°S, and the northward flow of Warm Water in the WBC is complemented by the basin-wide Ekman flow (12.3±1.0×106 m3 s−1), the net contribution of the geostrophic interior flow of Warm Water being southward. The equatorial Ekman divergence drives a conversion of Thermocline Water (24.58⩽σ0<26.75) into Surface Water (σ0<24.58) of 7.5±0.5×106 m3 s−1, mostly occurring west of 35°W. The Deep Water of northern origin flows southward at 7.5°N in an energetic (48±3×106 m3 s−1) Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC), whose transport is in part compensated by a northward recirculation (21±4.5×106 m3 s−1) in the Guiana Basin. At 4.5°S, the DWBC is much less energetic (27±7×106 m3 s−1 southward) than at 7.5°N. It is in part balanced by a deep northward recirculation east of which alternate circulation patterns suggest the existence of an anticyclonic gyre in the central Brazil Basin and a cyclonic gyre further east. The deep equatorial Atlantic is characterized by a convergence of Lower Deep Water (45.90⩽σ4<45.83), which creates an upward diapycnal transport of 11.0×106 m3 s−1 across σ4=45.83. The amplitude of this diapycnal transport is quite sensitive to the a priori hypotheses made in the inverse model. The amplitude of the meridional overturning cell is estimated to be 22×106 m3 s−1 at 7.5°N and 24×106 m3 s−1 at 4.5°S. Northward heat transports are in the range 1.26–1.50 PW at 7.5°N and 0.97–1.29 PW at 4.5°S with best estimates of 1.35 and 1.09 PW. 相似文献
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Alonso Hernández-Guerra Terrence M. Joyce Eugenio Fraile-Nuez Pedro Vélez-Belchí 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2010,57(1):29-36
Using a variety of oceanographic data, including direct volume transports in the Florida Strait, and Argo float profiles and drift velocities at 24°N and 36°N in the North Atlantic, inverse calculations are presented in which the net meridional transport, down to a depth of approximately 1600 m, is estimated at both latitudes for a 5-year period 2003–2007. The upper ocean is divided into seven layers using neutral density, and mass conservation constraints have been applied to a closed box bounded by these latitudes, including the Florida Strait. Ekman layer transports have been included in the top-most layer, and the inverse calculation has solved for changes from the initial reference velocities, Ekman and Florida Strait transports, given a priori estimates on the accuracy of each of these quantities. Solutions with and without transformations due to Mediterranean Water (MW) formation are made. Our results indicate that (1) time-averaged transport estimates derived from Argo have significant less eddy noise than individual hydrographic sections, (2) Argo drift velocities provide information to the inverse solution for the ocean interior, and (3) comparison of the total integrated interior mass transports in the thermocline waters for the period 2003–2007 with the previous estimates based on trans-ocean hydrographic sections shows that, within the errors of our estimation, the upper limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has not significantly changed since 1957. 相似文献
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The three-dimensional structure and the seasonal variation of the North Pacific meridional overturning circulation (NPMOC) are analyzed based on the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation data and Argo profiling float data.The NPMOC displays a multi-cell structure with four cells in the North Pacific altogether.The TC and the STC are a strong clockwise meridional cell in the low latitude ocean and a weaker clockwise meridional cell between 7°N and 18°N,respectively, while the DTC and the subpolar cell are a weaker ... 相似文献
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《Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography》2010,57(16):1433-1445
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) data are presented from three meridional transects conducted in the North Atlantic as part of the US Climate Variability (CLIVAR) Repeat Hydrography program in 2003. The hydrographic sections covered a latitudinal range of 6°S to 63°N along longitudes 20°W (CLIVAR line A16), 52°W (A20) and 66°W (A22). Over 3700 individual measurements reveal unprecedented detail in the DOC distribution and systematic variations in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the North Atlantic basin. Latitudinal gradients in DOC concentrations combined with published estimates of ventilation rates for the main thermocline and North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) indicate a net DOC export rate of 0.081 Pg C yr−1 from the epipelagic zone into the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones. Model II regression and multiple linear regression models applied to pairwise measures of DOC and chlorofluorocarbon (CFC-12) ventilation age, retrieved from major water masses within the main thermocline and NADW, indicate decay rates for exported DOC ranging from 0.13 to 0.94 μmol kg−1 yr−1, with higher DOC concentrations driving higher rates. The contribution of DOC oxidation to oxygen consumption ranged from 5 to 29% while mineralization of sinking biogenic particles drove the balance of the apparent oxygen utilization. 相似文献