利用卫星高度计资料分析热带大西洋表层环流的季节性变化

利用1993年4月至2001年3月的TOPEX/POSEIDON卫星高度计遥感资料,研究了热带大西洋(15°S-25°N,50°W-5°W)海面高度距平和表层环流结构的季节性变化。研究结果表明:夏季和冬季海面高度距平分布呈相反的结构,低纬度海区(0°-15°N之间的海区)海表风应力旋度所产生的Ekman抽吸而导致的海面升降是该海区海面高度距平季节性振荡的重要影响因素。热带大西洋表层流结构大部分海域季节变化不明显,部分流系具有明显季节振荡,东向的北赤道逆流夏季强度较大,冬、春季流速较小;非洲沿岸流冬季流向为东南向,其他季节流向为东北向。值得一提的是,几内亚海湾表层流秋、冬季为东向,而春、夏季为西向。通过卫星跟踪ARGOS漂流浮标观测结果进行的对比验证表明,上述遥感资料分析的表层地转流场与海上观测结果一致。     

西北太平洋副热带逆流、北赤道流、北赤道逆流几个特征的比较

根据137°E断面1967～1995年冬、夏季的温、盐资料,计算和分析该断面的地转流;分析144°E断面上投放卫星跟踪漂流浮标的漂移轨迹;结合CSK图集中的海面重力势分布,对副热带逆流、北赤道流和北赤道逆流几个特征的相同点和不同点进行比较,得出若干有益的结论:(1)副热带逆流、北赤道流、北赤道逆流,并不是单纯的单支海流,而是存在着两支或多支现象;(2)流速结构的带状分布,东、西向流相互交错间隔出现,流层较浅,均为表层流或近表层流;(3)多年平均而言,3支海流的流速以北赤道逆流最强,北赤道流次之,副热带逆流最弱;流量则不同,北赤道流最大,副热带逆流最小,北赤道逆流居中.3支海流的流速夏季均大于冬季,但流量稍有差异:副热带逆流和北赤道流均具有夏强、冬弱的特点,而北赤道逆流为冬强、夏弱;(4)冬季,副热带逆流的"源地",位于巴士海峡和台湾以东"副热带脊"的一个"暖脊"中心附近海域;(5)冬季,卫星跟踪漂流浮标的漂移轨迹,基本上反映出北赤道流和北赤道逆流的路径.但因副热带逆流区为涡旋频繁区,致使浮标漂移轨迹难以反映出副热带逆流的路径.     

热带太平洋平均环流数值模拟

用中国科学院大气物理研究所发展的高分辨率自由表面热带太平洋环流模式(区域为南北纬30°,经纬圈方向水平分辨率分别为1°和2°,垂直方向分为不等距14层),在观测到的海表面风应力和热量及淡水通量驱动下,对热带太平洋平均环流进行了数值模拟.结果表明,模式成功地模拟了海面起伏中赤道槽、赤道脊、北赤道逆流槽及中小尺度涡旋(如棉兰老涡)系统等分布;与这些槽脊分布相对应的北赤道流,南赤道流和北赤道逆流等热带流系;对气候有重大影响的海表温度分布;次表层温跃层结构和赤道潜流等.文中特别讨论了海面起伏与模式其他变量场间的关系及其应用.     

1993年冬季所罗门群岛─关岛断面地转流的初步分析

根据1993年1─2月“实验3”号考察船在霍尼亚拉港（瓜达尔卡纳尔岛）至关岛的断面观测的温、盐度资料，分析了该断面上的地转流结构，计算了南赤道流及北赤道逆流的地转流流速和流量。结果表明：在纬线方向上E向流与W向流呈带状分布，在垂向上也多为E向流与W向流交替出现。在南赤道流和北赤道逆流中都夹有与主流向相反的流动，它们的流量分别约占主流向流量的1／3和1／5。文章还将分析计算结果与手头掌握的文献报道的结果作了比较。     

1991年冬季菲律宾以东海流特征和盐度结构

本文根据１９９１年１１月１５日～１２月２０日中国世界大洋环流实验（简称ＣＷＯＣＥ）首航ＡＤＣＰ测流资料并结合日本气象厅的ＡＣＭ次表层测流资料（１９９２年１月２０日～２月１５日），描述了菲律宾以东的海流特征。同时应用该航次ＣＴＰ资料计算了各观测断面的地转流流量，并用盐度跟踪讨论了北赤道逆流（ＮＥＣＣ）、黑潮和棉兰老海流的水源。计算和分析表明，本航次期间有３个强流区，即黑潮源头区、棉兰老沿岸区和北赤道逆流区。此外，本航次本区海流特征与１９８６／１９８７ＥＮＳＯ事件同期的海流特征基本相同。     

中太平洋西部赤道流系的诊断计算

利用１９７９年“实践”号海洋调查船在１０°Ｓ—５°Ｎ，１７０°Ｅ—１７５°Ｅ海区的调查资料，对该海区的海流进行了诊断计算。计算结果表明：该海区存在北赤道逆流、南赤道流、南赤道逆流、赤道潜流和赤道中层流。另外，在赤道有一股强的上升流。由于该上升流的存在，使赤道潜流沿纬向发生弯曲：位于上升流西侧的潜流流轴降至３００ｍ水层深处，而东侧上升至１００ｍ左右的水层深处。此外，计算结果显示潜流核心位置并不正好位于赤道上，而是向北偏移约０．５°。在有实测海流的格点上，计算值与实测值基本一致。     

1991年冬季菲律宾以东海流特征和盐度结构

本文根据１９９１年１１月１５日￣１２月２０日中国世界大洋环流实验首航ＡＤＣＰ测流资料并结合日本气象厅的ＡＣＭ次表层测流资料，描述了菲律宾以东的海流特征。同时应用该航次ＣＴＰ资料计算了各观测断面的地转流流量，并用盐度跟踪讨论了北赤道逆流、黑潮和棉兰老海流的水源。计算和分析表明，本航次期间有３个强流区，即黑潮源头区，棉兰老沿岸区和北赤道逆流区。此外，本航次本区海流特征与１９８６／１９８７ＥＮＳＯ事件同     

赤道太平洋西部的上层环流

讨论了赤道太平洋西部的上层海洋环流、结果表明：（１）棉兰老涡气旋式环流随着深度的增加而减小。由于埃克曼抽吸作用，它是一个低盐冷涡；（２）对棉兰老岛—巴布亚新几内亚岛之间穿越流的观测表明：该断而北部（５°—６°Ｎ）的Ｓ向流是棉兰老海流的Ｓ向延伸；Ｗ向的巴布亚新几内亚沿岸潜流可达该断而的东南部门（２°Ｎ一２°Ｓ）；北赤道逆流则在两者之间沿表层的盐度锋作Ｅ向流动。据此，赤道太平洋西部次表层盐度分布状况可得到圆满解释。关键词：     

137°E赤道潜流1月年际变化及其原因的探讨

利用日本海洋调查船沿137°E断面8°N—1°S之间、1968—1985年每年1月份的海流实测资料,分析了该断面上赤道潜流的变化。资料表明,该处赤道潜流位于1°—2°N之间的温跃层中、下部,其单、双核结构均可出现,且下层流核之流速多大于上层流核。该处潜流1月年际变化明显,一般E1 Nino(简称EN)后期流速小于非EN时期。这主要是由于EN初期夏、秋季中太平洋信风风场发生变化,从而导致赤道及热带太平洋纬向压力梯度变化。此外,137°E赤道潜流与其两侧流的经向辐合关系密切,这表明了北赤道逆流和南赤道流对潜流的可能影响。     

赤道暖池区漂流浮标运动轨迹分析

TOGA—COARE强化观测期间,对赤道暖池区海流作了多种方法、多层次的观测;根据美国释放的漂流浮标不同时刻位置的资料,分别对赤道及其南、北海域的表层漂流状况作了计算分析,指出:从1°N向北存在单一的北向流;从1°N～1°S这个近赤道区域内为东向流;1°N～2°S区域为过渡区,以东向流为主,个别浮标出现涡旋状运动。2°S以南为一反时针运动的大涡旋。     

The mean flow field of the tropical Atlantic Ocean

The mean horizontal flow field of the tropical Atlantic Ocean is described between 20°N and 20°S from observations and literature results for three layers of the upper ocean, Tropical Surface Water, Central Water, and Antarctic Intermediate Water. Compared to the subtropical gyres the tropical circulation shows several zonal current and countercurrent bands of smaller meridional and vertical extent. The wind-driven Ekman layer in the upper tens of meters of the ocean masks at some places the flow structure of the Tropical Surface Water layer as is the case for the Angola Gyre in the eastern tropical South Atlantic. Although there are regions with a strong seasonal cycle of the Tropical Surface Water circulation, such as the North Equatorial Countercurrent, large regions of the tropics do not show a significant seasonal cycle. In the Central Water layer below, the eastward North and South Equatorial undercurrents appear imbedded in the westward-flowing South Equatorial Current. The Antarcic Intermediate Water layer contains several zonal current bands south of 3°N, but only weak flow exists north of 3°N. The sparse available data suggest that the Equatorial Intermediate Current as well as the Southern and Northern Intermediate Countercurrents extend zonally across the entire equatorial basin. Due to the convergence of northern and southern water masses, the western tropical Atlantic north of the equator is an important site for the mixture of water masses, but more work is needed to better understand the role of the various zonal under- and countercurrents in cross-equatorial water mass transfer.     

ENSO相联系的热带太平洋上层海洋异常环流

本文使用SODA(simple ocean data assimilation)海洋同化资料,系统分析了厄尔尼诺-南方涛动(El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation,ENSO)循环中冷暖位相期间热带太平洋上层海洋环流的演变规律,探讨了形成海洋环流异常的新机制。结果表明,在厄尔尼诺成熟期,热带中东太平洋赤道潜流最弱,赤道两侧出现反气旋性环流异常;西太平洋赤道外热带海域出现气旋性环流异常,该区南、北赤道流、棉兰老流、黑潮、新几内亚沿岸潜流及南赤道逆流增强;北赤道逆流区出现异常气旋性环流串,北赤道逆流接近正常。在厄尔尼诺衰退期和拉尼娜发展期,热带中西太平洋赤道潜流达到极强,赤道两侧出现气旋性环流异常;西太平洋赤道外热带海域异常环流减弱,该处主要流场的强度减弱或处于正常状态;北赤道逆流区反转为异常西向流。结果表明, ENSO循环期间的上层海洋环流异常受到热带太平洋温跃层深度异常产生的压强梯度力异常调控,在赤道外热带海洋温跃层深度异常和科里奥利力共同作用产生大尺度海洋环流异常,而在赤道海域,海洋温跃层深度异常和Gill效应造成赤道潜流异常以及关于赤道对称的气旋或反气旋性环流异常。     

The circularly propagating pattern of the low-frequencyfluctuations of monthly MSL in the tropical PacificOcean and its correlation with El Nino

The long-term time series analysis of the SST (sea surface temperature) in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean and the monthly MSL (mean sea level) in the tropical Pacific Ocean is conducted. Their quasiperiodic and low-frequency oscillation features are revealed. The significant periods of low-frequency fluctuations for monthly MSL in the area of 20°N-20° S are between 43. 5 months and 50. 0 months, approximating closely to 47. 6 months which is the significant period of SST in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean. From the results of space-spectral analysis, the low-frequency fluctations of monthly MSL in the tropical Pacific Ocean appear to have a anticlockwise circularly-propagating pattern, which is, the Eastern Pacific Ocean (off-shore of Mexico) →the area of NEC (North Equatorial Current) →the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean→the area of NECC (North Equatorial Counter-Current)→the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean. The phases of the pattern correspond to those of El Nino cycle. On the basis     

An extended variable-grid global ocean circulation model and its preliminary results of the equatorial Pacific circulation

1IntroductionThetropicalPacificOceanplaysanimpor-tantroleintheclimatevariabilitiessuchasElNi-no-SouthernOscillation(ENSO)phenomenon(Chao,1993).ManystudieshavefoundthatthetropicalPacificvariabilitiescanhavesignifi-cantinfluenceontheoceancirculationintheseasadjacenttoChina(Yu,1985;Chaoetal.,1996;Wangetal.,2002).TheseaareaadjacenttoChinaischaracterizedbyitscomplextopog-raphyandnumerousnarrowstraits,andthusre-quiresafinegridtoresolve.Tostudytheinter-actionbetweenthetropicalPacificandChinas…     

北太平洋冬季SST、风场及环流对淡水强迫的响应

通过海气耦合模式CCSM3(The Community Climate System Model version 3),研究在北大西洋高纬度淡水强迫下,北太平洋冬季的海表温度SST、风场及流场的响应及其区域性差异。结果表明:淡水的注入使北太平洋整体变冷,但有部分区域异常增暖;在太平洋东部赤道两侧,SST的变化出现北负南正的偶极子型分布。阿留申低压北移的同时中纬度西风减弱,热带附近东北信风增强。黑潮和南赤道流减弱,北太平洋副热带逆流和北赤道流增强,日本海被南向流控制。风场及流场的改变共同导致了北太平洋SST异常出现复杂的空间差异:北太平洋中高纬度SST的降温主要由大气过程决定,海洋动力过程主要影响黑潮、日本海及副热带逆流区域的SST,太平洋热带地区SST异常由大气与海洋共同主导。     

Why are rings regularly shed in the western equatorial Atlantic but not in the western Pacific?

The western equatorial Atlantic is characterized by the formation and shedding of 3–4 large anticyclonic rings per year. These rings originate from the North Brazil Current which, in response to the vanishing wind stress curl (over the ocean interior), retroflects and turns eastward at around 4°N. After their formation and shedding the rings propagate toward the northwest along the South American coast carrying an annual average of about 4Sv. As such, the rings constitute an important part of the meridional heat flux in the Atlantic.The same cannot be said, however, of the western equatorial Pacific. Here, the situation is entirely different even though the South Equatorial Current retroflects at roughly the same latitude as its Atlantic counterpart, the North Brazil Current. Although the South Equatorial Current retroflection is flanked by two quasi-permanent eddies (the so-called Halmahera and the Mindanao eddies), these eddies are an integral part of the current itself and are not shed. Consequently, they are not associated with any meridional heat flux. An important question is, then, why the two oceans behave in such a fundamentally different way even though the source of the rings, the retroflected currents, are very similar in the two oceans.To answer this question, the two oceans are compared using recently developed analytical and numerical models for the western equatorial oceans. It is first pointed out that, according to recent developments in the modelling of the western equatorial Atlantic, the North Brazil Current retroflection rings are formed, shed and drift to the west because, in the Atlantic, this is the only way by which the momentum flux of the approaching and retroflecting current can be balanced. In this scenario, the northwestward flow force exerted by the approaching and retroflecting North Brazil Current (analogous to the force created by a rocket) is balanced by the southwestward force exerted by the rings as they are formed (analogous in some sense to the kickback associated with a firing gun).On the other hand, in the western equatorial Pacific, the formation and shedding of rings is unnecessary because the southward flowing Mindanao Current provides an alternative mechanism for balancing the northward momentum flux of the South Equatorial Current. This implies that it is the absence of a counter current (such as the Mindanao) in the western Atlantic that causes the formation and shedding of North Brazil Current rings. A remaining difficulty with the above scenario is that most colliding and retroflecting currents (i.e. the Mindanao and South Equatorial currents) are not “balanced” in the sense that they cannot be stationary but rather must drift along the coast. It is shown that, in the case of the western Pacific, the long-shore migration is arrested by the Indonesian Throughflow which allows the “unbalanced” fraction of the approaching currents to leak out into the Indian Ocean. This resolves the above difficulty and allows the retroflection to be approximately steady.     

An argo-based model for investigation of the Global Ocean (AMIGO)

We analyze the newly developed Argo-Based Model for Investigation of the Global Ocean (AMIGO), which consists of a block for variational interpolation of the profiles of drifting Argo floats to a regular grid and a block for model hydrodynamic adjustment of variationally interpolated fields. Such a method makes it possible to obtain a full set of oceanographic characteristics—temperature, salinity, density, and current velocity—using irregularly located Argo measurements. The resulting simulations are represented as monthly mean, seasonal, and annual means and climatological fields. The AMIGO oceanographic database developed at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology from model simulations covers the 10-year period from 2005 to 2014. Analysis of transport variations in the propagation of North Atlantic Current jets to the Arctic based on the AMIGO data showed that during this period, anomalous winter transports were observed, which correlate with anomalous winter temperatures in regions of northwestern Europe, northern European Russia, and Iceland, which are subjected to the influence of these currents. Comparative analysis of variations in mass and heat transport by the currents and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index in the period of 2005–2014 shows a well pronounced correlation between them. The low winter values of the NAO index correspond to the low values of winter transports by the Faroe–Shetland branch of the North Atlantic current, and usually, to the high values of winter transports by the North Icelandic branch of the Irminger Current. High winter value of the NAO index results in a substantial increase in the winter transport by the Faroe–Shetland branch of the North Atlantic Current without notable influence on the transport of the North Icelandic branch of the Irminger Current.     

赤道大洋定常风生环流的理论模型

为了模拟以南、北赤道流、赤道逆流和赤道潜流为特征的赤道流系,从长时间平均的线性化的海水运动方程出发,考虑海水层化、保留经向摩擦作用,利用赤道太平洋中部海区经向流通量不随纬度变化的量阶估计,得到海水密度跃层对赤道风场的响应,即跃层深度的分布规律,然后应用我们已构建的改进Fourier方法求解(由于地转口效应所引入的)变系数的海水运动方程,得到适用于中部赤道太平洋的级数形式的三维流场解。     

Kinematic structure and transport of currents in the north-western tropical Atlantic

Oceanographic data from the regional data bank, covering a period from 1911 through to 1990, in combination with the climatic tangential wind stress data have been applied to determine the historical fields of summary currents in the north-western tropical Atlantic; currents of the major circulation elements in the active layer have been specified. It has been confirmed that a significant, in terms of climate, transport of surface and subsurface waters by the geostrophic component of the North Brazil current (NBC) to the northern tropical Atlantic does not take place. North-west of 2^oN and 45^o W, the current turns eastward, thus contributing to the generation of the equatorial countercurrent. The transport of the NBC within a 0–500 m layer near 1^o N has been evaluated to be equivalent to 50 Sv, and the mean annual transport of the equatorial countercurrent to 30 Sv. Translated by Vladimir A. Puchkin.