南极海冰与气候

在极区,海冰的形成在海洋上部和大气下部之间构成了新的交界面,改变了大洋表面的辐射平衡和能量平衡,隔离了海洋与大气之间的热交换和水汽交换;海冰冻融过程影响着大洋温、盐流的形成和强度;海冰对南大洋和南极大陆气象、气候有重要的影响,在气候环境系统中起着重要的作用。南极海冰作用区约占南半球雪冰作用区面积的58%,约占地球表面积的3.58%。其中,一年生海冰约占南极海冰区分布面积的83%;其分布面积从夏末2月份最小时的3×106 km2左右,到9月份冬末最大时的18×106 km2左右,一年中季节变化幅度可达15×106 km2,季节变化率>500%。海冰分布区域的年际变化较大。南极海冰区是影响季节和年际全球气候环境变化的重要区域。当前,国际南极海冰与气候研究的核心问题是海冰物理过程和在海冰区的海洋—大气相互作用。结合目前承担的研究课题,对国际南极海冰与气候研究的前沿动态和相关的国际计划进行了综述。     

南极海冰涛动及其对东亚季风和我国夏季降水的可能影响

利用NCEP 1973-2002年逐月南极海冰密集度格点资料,定义了具有跷跷板式变化规律的南极海冰涛动指数,分析了冬季南极海冰涛动指数与我国夏季降水及东亚季风爆发时间的关系.结果显示:南极海冰涛动指数与同期南极海冰密集度相关系数超过5%信度的格点数占南极海冰格点数的1/3,表明定义南极海冰涛动指数能够代表南极地区1/3海冰的变化区域.冬季南极海冰涛动指数和我国汛期(6-8月)降水距平百分比相关显著,正相关主要在长江流域及其以南地区,长江流域以北为负相关,相关系数均超过5%的信度.当冬季南极海冰涛动指数为负值时,南海季风爆发早,概率为11/14=79%;为正值时南海季风爆发晚,概率为12/15=80%.通过讨论冬季南极海冰涛动指数影响我国季风降水的可能过程,给出了概念模型.     

南极海冰增加对全球7月气候的影响

采用了OSU两层大气环流模式进行数值试验, 研究了南极海冰增加的气候效应.试验中海温取为气候平均值, 南极海冰作为外强迫源影响大气, 大气响应完全是环流内部调整的结果.调整的途径首先是对外强迫的局地响应--南极下垫面的温度发生变化, 结果使得冬季南大洋绕极低压带的位置偏北、强度增加, 南半球大气以强经向环流为主, 绕极气旋强大活跃.这种变异主要以Rossby波列的形式影响到南半球的中高纬度, 再通过斜压的越赤道气流, 即经向热交换的变化影响到北半球的大气环流, 导致北半球夏季大气环流呈纬向分布, 极地冷空气活动减弱.大气环流的变异又影响到气候诸要素, 反映明显的是越赤道气流在印度洋上的加强和太平洋上的减弱, 使得西南季风加强, 东南季风减弱; 太平洋副高位置的偏北, 导致中国华北、华东和江淮流域少雨、高温, 北美中高纬度严重多雨和低温.     

南极海冰对大气环流及长江上游水量的影响

本文利用相关分析方法揭示了南极海冰面积变动与大气环流及长江上游水量变化之间的联系,并对这种联系发生的过程作了初步探讨.结果表明,南极海冰面积变动能够改变南印度洋纬向环流强度,并影响赤道西印度洋海温,进而影响印缅地区500hPa位势高度场.分析发现,2～3月南极海冰面积与8～9月长江上游水量有一定联系,这对于探讨长江上游水量变化的物理背景及长期水文预报有一定意义.     

大气、海洋与固体地球的能量交换

通过对南极气温资料、南极臭氧资料、环南极海冰资料、太平洋海温资料、地球自转速度变化资料、厄尔尼诺和拉尼娜资料的模拟验证，发现厄尔尼诺事件发生与德雷克海峡海冰减少在时间上有一一对应关系。南极半岛海冰减少是太平洋环流速度减慢的原因，德雷克海峡的海冰起重要作用。大气、海洋与固体地球的角动量交换在南、北半球有不同的形式。强震起源于海平面振荡。     

ENSO循环过程与南极海冰变化

应用1951-2001年ENSO特征指数(NINO1+2、NINO3、NINO4、NINO3.4、SOI)和1973-1998年南极海冰北界范围以及1950-2001年SODA海洋温度资料,分析探讨了ENSO循环过程与南极海冰之间的关系,研究了南大洋和太平洋海表温度与南极海冰之间的内在联系。结果表明,南极海冰变化与ENSO循环过程存在一定联系,特别是东南极海冰的变化与ENSO循环过程较为密切。这种遥相关关系表明,ENSO循环过程不仅与热带海洋自身的海 气相互作用存在密切关系,而且与南极海冰之间也存在一定的联系。当东南极海冰范围出现异常增大和减小时,在时滞一年之后,NINO循环指数将出现减弱和加强,而南方涛动指数将出现加强和减弱。这种相关关系的机制是通过大洋环流这一载体将异常海温向北输送来实现的。南极海冰范围的异常增加或减少,会直接影响南极绕极流的冷暖结构进而影响经向水体输送的异常,从而导致热带和副热带太平洋上层海温场的异常变化,对ElNino和LaNina事件的发生起到推动作用。     

南极海冰异常对南半球冬春季大气环流影响的年代际变化

南极海冰异常是影响南半球大气环流变化的一个重要因素。南极海冰变率的主要模态被称为南极海冰偶极子(Antarctic Dipole, ADP),具体表现为南极半岛两侧海冰的反相变化。ADP的出现受到厄尔尼诺-南方涛动事件的强烈影响,而过去的研究显示,厄尔尼诺在2000年后由东部型转到中部型,伴随着该转变,南极海冰的异常模态及其对南半球大气环流的影响也发生了年代际变化。通过对前期的南极海冰异常与滞后的南半球冬春季位势高度异常进行最大协方差分析,发现南半球冬季至春季持续性的正位相ADP,在1979—1999年间与南半球春季的负位相南半球环状模(Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode,SAM)显著关联,但在2000—2021年间该相关性较弱,转变为南半球秋季的三极型海冰异常与后期冬季的SAM显著相关。动力诊断证明,ADP及三极型海冰异常均能通过引发高频瞬变涡旋的变化,激发并维持SAM型大气环流异常。     

季节性海冰驱动的冰期北大西洋“电容器”效应

第四纪冰期的千年尺度气候突变事件——Dansgaard-Oeschger Event (D-O事件),一直是古气候学领域关注的重点。近年来,数值模拟的研究发现,北大西洋副极地地区年际-年代际气候变率的振幅在D-O事件中的冰阶冷期远大于间冰阶暖期,这一现象为理解该区域海温代理指标的气候学意义提供了重要参考价值,但其动力机制尚不清晰。本文利用海气耦合气候模型(COSMOS),通过模拟氧同位素(MIS)3阶段的一个典型D-O事件过程,探讨了冰阶冷期北大西洋气候变率的放大机制。结果显示,北大西洋副极地海域的季节性海冰通过调控海气间热量交换,影响当地气候变率的幅度。冰阶期,热带暖水向北输送导致海洋次表层逐渐升温,削弱了表层-次表层海水的密度层结,有利于次表层暖水上涌,促进海冰融化及海表温度升高。这将激发出海平面气压的负异常,引起气旋式风切变,并通过Ekman抽吸作用加速表层-次表层海水的垂直混合,进一步促进次表层暖水的上涌。这一正反馈机制造成海洋次表层热量的迅速释放,海表温度快速升高。当次表层热量释放结束后,海表将无暖水补充,导致海表温度下降,海冰增多。该过程激发的海表气压正异常(即反气旋式风切变)将抑制垂直混合发生,促进次表层热量积累,为下一次放热过程提供条件。在间冰阶暖期,随着北大西洋季节性海冰消失,海气间热交换不再受海冰变化影响,海洋次表层与大气间的热交换始终处于准平衡态,气候变率的振幅显著下降。本研究结果显示,北大西洋季节性海冰的存在可以调控海洋次表层热量积累-释放的过程,产生“电容器”效应,这对理解冰期年际-年代际气候变率放大现象有重要启示意义。     

基于卫星气候资料的1989-2015年南北极海冰面积变化分析

利用被动微波卫星海冰密集度气候资料,分析了1989-2015年南北极海冰面积和密集度的长期变化趋势。结果表明：研究期内,北极年平均海冰面积减少,南极海冰面积增加,变化趋势分别为-0.569×10⁶ km²·（10a）^-1和0.327×10⁶ km²·（10a）^-1,均通过了0.01水平的显著性检验,两极海冰面积变化趋势表现出明显的"非对称性"。两极总海冰面积出现了下降,变化趋势为-0.242×10⁶ km²·（10a）^-1。年海冰密集度在北极地区普遍减少,而在南极地区的变化趋势存在显著的空间差异,威德尔海、罗斯海北部海冰密集度增加,趋势超过了10%·（10a）^-1,别林斯高晋海、阿蒙森海的海冰密集度出现下降。北极各月海冰面积的变化趋势存在明显的季节差异,7-10月海冰面积减少明显,其中9月减少最显著,趋势为-0.955×10⁶ km²·（10a）^-1。南北极海冰冻结和融化的时间不完全对应,北极融化与冻结时间基本平衡,南极海冰冻结时间明显长于融化时间。南极年内海冰面积的变化幅度大于北极,呈现显著的季节性特征。北极极小海冰面积的变化趋势最显著,达到了-0.636×10⁶ km²·（10a）^-1。南极极大海冰面积出现的时间后移明显,趋势为0.733候·（10a）^-1;极小海冰面积出现的时间非常稳定,没有明显的变化趋势。     

基于走航观测的夏季南极海冰分布特征分析

依托中国第19次南极科学考察,基于ASPeCt(南极海冰过程与气候)海冰走航观测方法标准,以"雪龙号"破冰船为平台进行夏季南大洋海冰走航观测.在2003年1月4-17日近6 500km的航程断面上,分别获取了海冰的厚度、密集度、雪厚度、浮冰尺寸等海冰分布特征参数.结果表明,海冰分布特征参数均呈现了较大的空间变化.由于夏季海冰融化并受制于特定动力过程作用,海冰在威德尔海附近聚集,密集度达到峰值,沿断面在0%～80%之间变化;在断面的大部分观测到开阔水域.沿断面海冰厚度介于10～210cm,雪厚度介于2～80 cm之间,在埃默里冰架附近冰雪厚度达到了全断面的最高值.沿断面浮冰尺寸,最小到＜10 cm到最大超过2 000 m不等.     

Prediction of sea ice edge in the Antarctic using GVF Snake model

Antarctic sea ice cover plays an important role in shaping the earth’s climate, primarily by insulating the ocean from the atmosphere and increasing the surface albedo. The convective processes accompanied with the sea ice formation result bottom water formation. The cold and dense bottom water moves towards the equator along the ocean basins and takes part in the global thermohaline circulation. Sea ice edge is a potential indicator of climate change. Additionally, fishing and commercial shipping activities as well as military submarine operations in the polar seas need reliable ice edge information. However, as the sea ice edge is unstable in time, the temporal validity of the estimated ice edge is often shorter than the time required to transfer the information to the operational user. Hence, an accurate sea ice edge prediction as well as determination is crucial for fine-scale geophysical modeling and for near-real-time operations. In this study, active contour modelling (known as Snake model) and non-rigid motion estimation techniques have been used for predicting the sea ice edge (SIE) in the Antarctic. For this purpose the SIE has been detected from sea ice concentration derived using special sensor microwave imager (SSM/I) observations. The 15% sea ice concentration pixels are being taken as the edge pixel between ice and water. The external force, gradient vector flow (GVF), of SIE for total the Antarctic region is parameterised for daily as well as weekly data set. The SIE is predicted at certain points using a statistical technique. These predicted points have been used to constitute a SIE using artificial intelligence technique, the gradient vector flow (GVF). The predicted edge has been validated with that of SSM/I. It is found that all the major curvatures have been captured by the predicated edge and it is in good agreement with that of the SSM/I observation.     

Potential for Southern Hemisphere climate surprises

Climate model results suggest that future climate change in Antarctica will be accompanied by continued strengthening and poleward contraction of the Southern Ocean westerly wind belt. Paleoclimate records suggest past changes in the westerly winds can be abrupt and that healing of the Antarctic ozone hole could lead to poleward contraction of the westerlies and increased meridional atmospheric transport of warm air regionally into Antarctica. An abrupt shift to more meridional circulation could lead to notable changes in moisture availability for extra‐Antarctic regions, increased Antarctic ice sheet disintegration and more rapid sea‐level rise.     

南极和北极地区在全球变化中的作用研究

近半个世纪的调查基本揭示了极地在地球系统中的作用。两极保持了世界 99%的冰川 ,相当于全球淡水的 78% ,全部融化将使地球海平面上升 70m。极区又是世界气候系统中最活泼的组成 ,通过其冰盖、大气和周围海域的强烈耦合过程而影响全球。同时 ,南极上空臭氧空洞的出现 ,北极地区冻土带的北移等都表明全球变化也在明显地影响着两极。中国 2 0年来对南极的考察过程中 ,建立两个南极科学考察站 ,拥有极地考察破冰船 ,1999年开展了中国首次北极科学考察 ,对南北极的区域特征及其在全球变化中的作用提出了新的认识。     

The East Antarctic sea ice zone: Ice characteristics and drift

Results from studies of the surface energy balance and the ocean structure in the presence of fast ice near Mawson on the Antarctic coast are used to illustrate the important ways in which sea ice interacts with the ocean and atmosphere. Away from the coast, ship and drifting buoy observations are used to characterize the E Antarctic sea ice zone in a study area between 60° E and 120° E and S of 61° S. Divergent drift over most of the region plays a dominant role in expanding the ice extent in autumn and in determining the characteristics of the pack. Much of the sea ice in the region is young thin ice which forms in leads and polynyas, and in late spring in the study area, the ice thickness averaged over the total ocean surface within the ice edge less than 0.4 m. Even in winter the majority of ice floes off E Antarctica are probably less than 1 m thick.     

南极地区晚第四纪环境及其与全球变化的关系

南极无冰区和冰芯的记录均表明,晚更新世以来南极地区的环境和气候变化是与全球变化一致的。在最近几十年,大气CO₂含量增加已引起南极地区气温升高,冰盖前缘缓慢消退。温室效应将促使南极冰盖（首先是陆缘冰）部分融化,但不可能崩溃。在今后50年内,南极冰盖部分消融引起的海面上升幅度将不超过2m。     

Distribution of Seismicity and Heat Flow Anomalies in the Barents Sea Region

The contemporary seismicity and heat flow density are indicators of geodynamic processes. A unified seismic catalog is compiled for the European sector of the Arctic region for the period of 1995–2015 with the data on the spatial distribution of heat flow from different databases. The theoretically possible relationships of heat flow values and seismic activity manifestations are discussed for this region, and combined geological and geophysical cross sections of the structure of the lithosphere are made in the latitudinal and meridional directions. The most geodynamically active structures and zones of tectonic stress concentration are distinguished.     

Atlantic ocean heat piracy and the bipolar climate see‐saw during Heinrich and Dansgaard–Oeschger events

The millennial‐scale asynchrony of Antarctic and Greenland climate records during the last glacial period implies that the global climate system acts as a bipolar see‐saw driven by either high‐latitudinal and/or near‐equatorial sea‐surface perturbations. Based on the results of recent modelling of generic Heinrich and Dansgaard–Oeschger scenarios, we discuss the possibility that oscillations of the deep‐ocean conveyor may have been sufficient to cause this bipolar see‐saw. The bipolar climate asynchrony in our scenarios is caused by the toggle between North Atlantic heat piracy and South Atlantic counter heat piracy. Ocean circulation has an enhanced sensitivity to the northern deep‐water source as the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) cannot enter the Southern Ocean at depths shallower than the bottom of the Drake Passage. Any shoaling of the NADW can, therefore, increase the northward incursion of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), and trigger an interhemispheric climate oscillation. As hundreds of years are required to warm the respective high latitudes, the observed climate lead and lags between the two hemispheres can be explained entirely by the variability of the meridional overturning and by the corresponding change in the oceanic heat transport. Accordingly, it is entirely feasible for the global climate to work like a pendulum, which theoretically could be controlled by pushing at either of the deep‐water sources. Our model scenarios suggest that it is entirely feasible for the bipolar climate see‐saw to be controlled solely by variations in NADW formation. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Holocene variability in climate and oceanic conditions in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa—inferred from a high resolution diatom record from Verlorenvlei

We present a diatom record from a well-dated 15.25 m composite sedimentary core from Verlorenvlei, a shallow coastal lake on the west coast of South Africa. We show that fluctuations in the diatom record occur in response to changes in sea level, ocean–atmosphere interactions and latitudinal shifts in the wind belts. During the early to mid-Holocene, the system primarily responds to sea level changes. A marine community that favours high nutrients is evident, particularly during 9200–8000, 7420–7000 and 6200–5600 cal a bp , corroborating periods of Benguela upwelling linked to fluctuations in the southeast trade winds. Increases in bioproductivity (%TOC, C/N) and fresher-water diatoms are associated with wetter conditions over the region and the northward migration of the southern westerly wind belt, most notably between 8000 and 7500 cal a bp and over the last 700 years. The latter trends are concomitant with changes in the extent of Antarctic sea ice and availability of moisture in southern South America. During the late Holocene, as sea levels stabilised to modern levels, climate variability is more strongly evident. The body of evidence further reveals the sensitivity of the region to high-latitude atmospheric mechanisms, but also showcases the significance of the southeast trade winds.