7月北极海冰与翌年1月大气环流及亚洲中、高纬地区气温趋势的关系

本文主要通过相关统计分析,研究了7月各海区海冰与同期上空500hPa高度场的关系及其与后期翌年1月北半球500hPa大气环流的联系,对翌年1月亚洲中高纬地区气温趋势的可能影响在此也作了讨论。结果表明:7月北极海冰与其同期上空500hPa高度存在着较好的负相关关系。其中,尤以Ⅰ、Ⅱ海区负相关关系更好。在北极各海区中,以7月第Ⅲ海区海冰与后期翌年1月北半球500hPa大气环流联系较为密切。主要表现为,7月Ⅱ海区海冰M指数高(即冰情重)时,翌年1月北欧低槽及东亚大槽偏弱,并多伴随着乌拉尔山阻塞形势的破坏过程。7月Ⅱ海区海冰M指数低(即冰情轻)时,翌年1月北欧低槽及东亚大槽偏强,多伴随着乌拉尔山阻塞形势的建立过程。7月Ⅱ海区冰情重时,亚洲中、高纬地区1月气温多偏低,反之多偏高。     

11月初北黄海一次海龙卷风暴的中尺度特征分析

利用多普勒天气雷达资料及反演风场和常规观测资料,对2014年11月2日发生在北黄海（山东半岛北部海上）一次罕见海龙卷风暴的中尺度特征进行了分析。结果表明：冷空气、暖湿海面热力边界、山东半岛北部近海岸西北风与偏西风的辐合线是海龙卷风暴发生的天气背景。海龙卷风暴发生时雷达回波PPI最大分贝反射率因子为60 dBZ,高度为2.0 km,最高风暴顶为4.5 km,最大垂直累积液态水含量VIL为21 kg·m-2。利用雷达反演风场进行中尺度特征分析,结果表明：在海龙卷风暴发生发展过程中,低层风辐合对应4.0 km高度上是风辐散,海上有较强的偏南暖湿气流输送到雷暴区。中尺度动力特征：最大正涡度和散度辐合在1.0 km以下,低层正涡度和散度辐合、高层散度辐散是雷暴发生初期动力特征;低层没有正涡度和散度辐合、高层为正涡度和散度辐合是雷暴开始发展的动力特征;低层和高层为大的正涡度和散度辐合是雷暴成熟阶段的动力特征。高空冷空气叠加上低空强的偏南气流,造成局地涡度加大和低层辐合加强,使低层暖湿气流倾斜上升。海龙卷与辐合区的冷空气和暖湿气流有关。     

北欧海主要海盆海面热通量的多年变化

北欧海有暖流和寒流注入,又发生大量回流,水团特性异常复杂。由于北欧海的环流受地形控制,其水团的分布与4个海盆的分布有密切的关系。本文研究各个海盆热通量变化的差异,以研究获取对北欧海海气相互作用区域差异的认识。北欧海的热量夏季以太阳短波辐射为主,冬季以来自海洋的长波辐射、感热和潜热通量为主。海盆间的差异主要体现在格陵兰海,其变化幅度短波辐射高出50%,长波辐射高出大约40%,潜热高出大约60%,感热高出近4倍。可能的原因是,格陵兰海强烈的感热和潜热释放导致海温降低,气温也受北极冷空气的影响,形成与暖流区迥异的自然环境。过去30年发生了2次显著的热量减少事件。其中,1987年的事件很可能与冰岛的火山喷发有关,火山喷发对短波辐射的影响长达一年之久,导致感热和潜热也同步减少。1998年格陵兰海的潜热和感热明显减少,与北极海冰输出导致的海温偏低有显著关系。文章分析了4个主要海盆热通量的变化与北极涛动(AO)指数的关系。结果表明,发生在冰岛海的向下短波辐射和发生在格陵兰海的感热和潜热与AO相关度较高,体现了与AO的密切关系。这些热通量与AO指数的滑动相关系数表明,1992年以前冰岛海的短波辐射与AO的相关性非常高,而格陵兰海的感热和潜热在1993年后与AO高度相关,是值得深入研究的现象。本文的结果支持以下观点:北欧海对北极涛动的贡献主要是格陵兰海的感热和潜热释放通过冰岛低压区的上升气流影响冰岛低压的云量,从而影响到达的太阳辐射而导致大气环流的变化。     

2018年6月上合组织青岛峰会期间海雾大气边界层特征及能见度分析

利用常规观测、地面加密自动站及NCEP再分析资料,对2018年6月9-10日上合组织青岛峰会期间海雾发展和消散过程进行了分析,总结了大气能见度预报的着眼点.结果 表明:低纬暖湿气流在向岸风的作用下,在青岛沿海附近形成风速辐合和水汽辐合生成海雾,水汽辐合散度增大,海雾处于发展阶段;当切断来自低纬暖湿的水汽输送,水汽辐合减...     

1985年盛夏强和弱辐合带的热带大气环流特征

本文运用90—180°E热带地区的多种月平均资料及恢平均资料,对1985年7月弱辐合带和8月强辐合带的热带大气环流特点作了分析。得到:强辐合带时,对流层低层来自南半球的越赤道气流范围广、强度强,南亚西南季风强,辐合带位置偏北且辐合强,西北太平洋台风发生的主要地区海平面气压月距平为负值区及微弱正值区;对流层上部从北半球向南半球的越赤道气流也强,且南风分量在垂直方向上自下而上递减,200hPa上强烈辐散处的下方为低空辐合带,对流层上部槽（以下简称TUTT）的位置较常年偏北、偏西。弱辐合带时的情况则相反或有着很大不同。     

北欧海海平面异常及海水密度的时空特征

北欧海连接着北冰洋和北大西洋,在全球环流和气候中起着重要的作用。本文采用EOF方法对基于高度计遥感的SLA进行了分析,给出了其时空分布特征。对SODA数据给出的SSH和SST进行了SVD的分析,并利用ISHii再分析数据分析了海水密度的变化特征。结果表明,季节变化是导致SLA总体变化的主要因素,而中心区域的下沉流是导致SLA异常低的重要因素:东格陵兰海域极地水与北大西洋暖流交汇,形成的低温、高盐、高密的海水导致下沉流。文章最后分析了近20a来北欧海的SST变化,得出北欧海SST以0.024°C/year的速度升温,表明有更多的热量通过热盐环流向大洋底部输送,这将有利于减缓全球的气温升高。     

赤道西太平洋大气边界层的诊断分析

利用１９９３年ＥＮＳＯ事件爆发（４月）前酝酿时期“热带大洋与全球大气－海洋耦合响应试验”强化观测阶段“向阳红五号”科学考察船１５５°Ｅ，２°Ｓ定点海洋气象和高空大气探测资料，分析了赤道西太平洋大气边界层特征。结果表明：赤道西太平洋上空辐合对流区边界层内也有等温或逆温层存在，大气边界层物理参数变化与大尺度海－气变异有密切关系，赤道太平洋沃克环流加强、东移，边界层上部逆温层出现概率明显增大，边界层内高湿层湿度减小。另外，边界层内实测风速、风向廓线随高度的变化基本上不服从Ｅｋｍａｎ规律，但由其平均，分量合成得到的平均风随高度的变化却基本符合Ｅｋｍａｎ规律。     

春季北极地区云量跷跷板式的趋势变化特征及其对北极放大的云反馈作用

利用2000—2017年月平均的CERES云量、辐射资料和ERA再分析资料,对春季北极云量趋势变化特征和成因及其对北极放大反馈的贡献进行研究,发现春季北极地区总云量的趋势在东北极海区和北欧海区呈跷跷板式的反位相变化特征,并与低云量的趋势变化有较为一致的空间分布,中高云则与低云大体上呈相反的变化特征。北欧海的低云量减少、中高云增加,主要是因为进入北欧海区的超强气旋增多带来丰富的水汽,对流增强,云底高度抬升,使得低云量减少而中高云量呈增加趋势。这种云量垂直结构的变化所引起的云辐射强迫作用分别体现了低云的正反馈和中高云的负反馈作用,增温和降温作用相互抵消,使北欧海增温不显著。东北极海区低云量显著增加而中高云变化不明显,可能由于海冰融化,海表面增温,海面蒸发加强,水汽增加,大气静力稳定度减弱,有利于低云的形成。这种低云量的显著增加使得云辐射强迫作用强化了海冰反照率正反馈机制,从而加强了东北极海区的增温趋势。     

海南岛海风锋逐月统计与数值模拟分析

利用1979—2014年的欧洲再分析月平均资料统计海南岛海风锋辐合的逐月演变情况,了解到4—8月海南岛北部沿海午后有海风锋辐合,其他月份海南岛西南部沿海在午后有海风锋辐合。在此基础上,利用WRF模式进行了风场的模拟,对4—8月海风锋的初始辐合位置和移动路径进行了分析。结果表明:4—8月海风锋辐合多产生在儋州-临高-澄迈-海口一带;6月以后,海风锋辐合初始位置最东发生在海口-文昌北部,海风锋辐合向东最远能推至文昌-琼海沿海一带;同时,海南岛东北部环境风场受海风增幅作用抑制了海风锋辐合的向东推进。     

海洋-大气二氧化碳通量的观测技术

大范围稳定地获取海洋-大气系统中二氧化碳的精确数据,是海洋科学、大气科学以及全球变化科学和可持续发展科学计划中的重要任务.准确评估海-气CO2通量需要对海洋和大气中相关参数的同步精确连续观测,需要发展和建立海-气CO2通量的立体观测平台.该观测平台包括岸基、船基、航空、卫星和浮标等系统,主要技术包括走航大气和海水观测技术、浮标海-气CO2通量观测技术、极区海洋-大气CO2通量的观测技术和遥感海洋-大气CO2通量观测和评估技术.     

盛夏北极边缘海冰与来年冬季NAO之联系

许多研究认为,只有北大西洋涛动(NAO)是一种具有物理意义的模态,而北极涛动(AO)则是EOF分解得到的一种统计假象模态。为了从一个新的角度进一步探讨二者的差别,我们运用附条件的最大协方差分析(CMCA)统计了前期北极边缘海冰密集度(MSCI)与来年冬季NAO之间的跨季节遥相关关系,其中的ENSO信号和线性趋势已经在分析之前被去除。统计显著性结果表明:冬季负位相的NAO信号可以追溯到6个月前自盛夏开始至早冬季节北极MSCI异常的逐步演变。然而根据先前的研究,北极海冰异常仅可以超前冬季AO 大概4个月表现出显著信号。这表明盛夏北极MSCI的持续异常对来年冬季NAO的影响比对AO更强,同时也从另一个角度证实了AO与NAO确实存在差异。进一步分析还表明,前期MSCI异常的逐步演变主要与海表面热通量及气温异常有关。此外,我们还重新审视了负位相的NAO对北半球冬季气候异常的影响以及可能的物理机制。     

黑潮弯曲时的北太平洋冬季海温异常对大气低频振荡的影响

利用中科院大气物理研究所开放实验室ＩＡＰ－ＡＧＣＭ（二层大气环流模式），针对黑潮弯曲时的北太平洋冬季表层海温（ＳＳＴ）异常进行八个月的数值积分试验。试验结果表明：黑潮弯曲时北太平洋冬季ＳＳＴ异常对大气低频振荡的影响具有明显的３０－６０ｄ振荡的特征；在北半球的３０－６０ｄ振荡，大部分地区为向西传播，在南半球则为向东传播；其经向传播较为复杂，在１２０°Ｅ剖面上以向南传播为主；热带地区受此ＳＳＴ异常的影响以西太平洋、印度洋大气加热场的３０－６０ｄ振荡为主要标志。     

The Arctic Circumpolar Boundary Current

The main water transformations in the Arctic Mediterranean take place in the boundary current of Atlantic Water, which crosses the Greenland–Scotland ridge from the North Atlantic into the eastern Norwegian Sea. It enters and flows around the Arctic Ocean before it exits the Arctic Mediterranean as the East Greenland Current, primarily through Denmark Strait. On route, it experiences numerous branchings and mergings. By examining how the properties of this “circumpolar” boundary current evolve, it is possible to identify and describe the processes causing the water mass transformations in the Arctic Mediterranean. It is also possible to follow the Arctic Ocean deep waters as they spread into the Nordic Seas and eventually provide 40% of the overflow water supplying the North Atlantic Deep Water.     

An isopycnal view of the Nordic Seas hydrography with focus on properties of the Lofoten Basin

Few basins in the world exhibit such a wide range of water properties as those of the Nordic Seas with cold freshwaters from the Arctic in the western basins and warm saline waters from the Atlantic in the eastern basins. In this study we present a 50-year hydrographic climatology of the Nordic Seas in terms of depth and temperature patterns on four upper ocean specific volume anomaly surfaces. This approach allows us to better distinguish between change due to variations along such surfaces and change due to depth variations of the stratified water column. Depth variations indicate changes in the mass field while property variations along isopycnals give insight into isopycnal advection and mixing, as well as diapycnal processes. We find that the warmest waters on each surface are found in the north, close to where the isopycnal outcrops, a clear indication of downward mixing of the warmer, more saline waters on shallower isopycnals due to convective cooling at the surface. These saline waters come from the Norwegian Atlantic Slope Current by means of a very high level of eddy activity in the Lofoten Basin.The isopycnal analyses further show that the principal water mass boundary between the waters of Arctic origin in the west and Atlantic waters in the east aligns quite tightly with the Jan Mayen, Mohn, Knipovich Ridge system suggesting little cross-ridge exchange. Instead, the main routes of exchange between the eastern and western basins appear to be limited to the northern and southern ends of ridge system: Atlantic waters into the Greenland Sea in the Fram St and Artic waters into the southern Norwegian Sea just north of the Iceland-Faroe Ridge.Analysis of a representative isopycnal in the main pycnocline shows it to be stable over time with only small variations with season (except where it outcrops in winter in the Greenland and Iceland Seas). However, two very cold winters, 1968–1969, led to greater than average heat losses across the entire Lofoten Basin that eroded away much of the Lofoten eddy and induced the greatest temperature anomaly in the entire 50-year record. Interannual variations in isopycnal layer temperature correlate with the NAO index such that waters in the Iceland Sea become warmer than average with warming air temperatures and conversely in the Lofoten Basin.     

Interdecadal changes in the links between European precipitation and atmospheric circulation during boreal spring and fall

A gridded monthly terrestrial precipitation from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia data set and the UK Met Office Northern Hemisphere mean sea level pressure data are used to investigate interdecadal changes in the relationships between precipitation variability over Europe and atmospheric circulation in the Atlantic–European sector during boreal spring and fall.
Singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis, performed for the climatic periods of strong/weak links to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) during spring and fall, revealed considerable interdecadal changes both in the strength and the structure of the links between European precipitation and regional atmospheric circulation. During periods of strong links to the NAO, the leading SVD mode is characterized by the NAO-like meridional dipole in sea level pressure (SLP) fields and associated opposite precipitation variations over northern/southern Europe. When the links to the NAO are weak, the leading SVD mode is represented by the tripole pattern in SLP fields over the North Atlantic–European region, driving regional precipitation variability both in spring and fall. Further correlation analysis has shown that this mode is associated with the Scandinavian teleconnection pattern (SCA). Thus, for the considered seasons during periods of weak NAO influence, the SCA plays a role of major driver of the regional precipitation variability.     

全球热带海洋海表温度场异常对北极海冰的影响

本文利用1951?2021年哈德莱中心提供的海冰和海温最新资料以及美国国家海洋和大气管理局气候预报中心提供的NCEP/NCAR再分析资料,分析探讨了北极海冰70余年的长期变化特征,进而研究了其快速减少与热带海温场异常变化之间的联系,揭示了在全球热带海洋海温场变化与北极海冰之间存在密切联系的事实。结果表明,北极海冰异常变化最显著区域出现在格陵兰海、卡拉海和巴伦支海。热带不同海区对北极海冰的影响存在明显时滞时间和强度差异,热带大西洋的影响相比偏早,印度洋次之,太平洋偏晚。热带大西洋、印度洋和中东太平洋海温异常影响北极海冰的最佳时间分别是后者滞后26个月、30个月和34个月,全球热带海洋影响北极海冰的时滞时间为33个月。印度洋SST对北极海冰的影响程度最强,其次是太平洋,最弱是大西洋。全球热带海洋对北极海冰的影响过程中,热带东太平洋和印度洋起主导作用。当全球热带海洋SST出现正（负）距平时,北极海冰会出现偏少（多）的趋势,而AO、PNA、NAO对北极海冰变化起重要作用,是热带海洋与北极海冰相系数的重要“纽带”。而AO、PNA和NAO不仅受热带海洋SST的影响,同时也受太平洋年代际振荡PDO和大西洋多年代际AMO的影响,这一研究为未来北极海冰快速减少和全球气候变暖机理的深入研究提供理论支撑。     

Current estimates of freshwater flux through Arctic and subarctic seas

As the world warms, the expectation is that the freshwater outflows from the Arctic Ocean to the North Atlantic will strengthen and may act to suppress the rate of the climatically-important Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Hitherto, however, we have lacked the system of measurements required to estimate the totality of the freshwater flux through subarctic seas. Though observations remain patchy and rudimentary in places, we piece-together the results from recent large-scale observational programmes together with associated modelling, to establish preliminary maps of the rates and pathways of freshwater flux through subarctic seas. These fluxes are calculated according to two reference salinities, S = 34.8 to conform with the majority of estimates reported in the literature, and S = 35.2, the salinity of the inflowing Atlantic water, to calculate the freshwater balance of the ‘Arctic Mediterranean’. We find that 148 mSv of freshwater enters the Nordic Seas across its northern boundary. There it is supplemented by around 54 mSv of freshwater from Baltic runoff, Norwegian runoff, P − E and Greenland ice melt, so that the total freshwater contribution to the Nordic Seas from all sources is 202 mSv. Of this, around 51 mSv of freshwater is estimated to pass south to the deep Atlantic in the dense water overflows leaving an assumed balance of 151 mSv to leave the Nordic Seas in the upper water export through Denmark Strait. The corresponding estimate for the freshwater outflow west of Greenland is 103 mSv relative to 35.2 so that the total freshwater flux reaching the North Atlantic through subarctic seas is around 300 mSv.     

Transports of Nordic Seas water masses and excess SF6 through Fram Strait to the Arctic Ocean

To determine the exchanges between the Nordic Seas and the Arctic Ocean through Fram Strait is one of the most important aspects, and one of the major challenges, in describing the circulation in the Arctic Mediterranean Sea. Especially the northward transport of Arctic Intermediate Water (AIW) from the Nordic Seas into the Arctic Ocean is little known. In the two-ship study of the circulation in the Nordic Seas, Arctic Ocean - 2002, the Swedish icebreaker Oden operated in the ice-covered areas in and north of Fram Strait and in the western margins of Greenland and Iceland seas, while RV Knorr of Woods Hole worked in the ice free part of the Nordic Seas. Here two hydrographic sections obtained by Oden, augmented by tracer and velocity measurements with Lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (LADCP), are examined. The first section, reaching from the Svalbard shelf across the Yermak Plateau, covers the region north of Svalbard where inflow to the Arctic Ocean takes place. The second, western, section spans the outflow area extending from west of the Yermak Plateau onto the Greenland shelf. Geostrophic and LADCP derived velocities are both used to estimate the exchanges of water masses between the Nordic Seas and the Arctic Ocean. The geostrophic computations indicate a total flow of 3.6 Sv entering the Arctic on the eastern section. The southward flow on the western section is found to be 5.1 Sv. The total inflow to the Arctic Ocean obtained using the LADCP derived velocities is much larger, 13.6 Sv, and the southward transport on the western section is 13.7 Sv, equal to the northward transport north of Svalbard. Sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆) originating from a tracer release experiment in the Greenland Sea in 1996 has become a marker for the circulation of AIW. From the geostrophic velocities we obtain 0.5 Sv and from the LADCP derived velocities 2.8 Sv of AIW flowing into the Arctic. The annual transport of SF₆ into the Arctic Ocean derived from geostrophy is 5 kg/year, which is of the same magnitude as the observed total annual transport into the North Atlantic, while the LADCP measurements (19 kg/year) imply that it is substantially larger. Little SF₆ was found on the western section, confirming the dominance of the Arctic Ocean water masses and indicating that the major recirculation in Fram Strait takes place farther to the south.     

大气环流优势模态对北极海冰变化的响应Ⅰ.北极涛动

利用美国冰雪中心海冰密集度数据,分析了1979-2012年北极海冰面积的时间变化特征,发现北极海冰具有显著的年代际变化特征,分别在1997和2007年前后存在两次年代际转型突变点,相应的大气环流优势模态——北极涛动(AO)也存在显著的时空变化。1979-1996年阶段海冰下降趋势较弱并以较强的年际振荡为主,AO模态较强且显示出低频振荡特征;1997-2006年阶段北极海冰快速减退趋势占优,同时伴随着较弱的年际振荡,AO模态减弱且振荡周期缩短;2007-2012年阶段海冰范围较快下降同时具有极强的年际振荡,方差变化是前两个阶段的2~3倍,AO不仅强度加强,空间结构也发生了变化,极涡中心分别向格陵兰岛和白令海峡一侧延伸,这种结构有利于极地冷空气入侵欧洲和北美。利用ECHAM5大气模式进行的数值试验结果也证实了较强振荡的海冰强迫对AO模态的改变具有决定作用。     

A teleconnection pattern in upper-level meridional wind over the North African and Eurasian continent in summer

One-point correlation analysis on upper-level meridional wind identified the existence of a teleconnection pattern in July, which emerges from North Africa to East Asia along the westerly jet in the middle latitudes. We examined the spatial and temporal structures of this teleconnection pattern, and found the unique characteristics rather different from the patterns in other elements such as geopotential height, streamfunction and vorticity. We also investigated the relationship between this teleconnection and precipitation, and suggested that the teleconnection is a possible linkage of the EASM to the Indian monsoon, and even to subtropical heating anomalies over Atlantic.