Statistical study on relationship of El Niño events and the hydrography along 137°E in summer

Principal component analysis (PCA) used by meteorologists and oceanographers is a powerful tool for the analysis of the spatial and temporal variability of physical fields. This study is aimed at applying “quasi-local PCA for singular factor” to make the cumulative percentage for the first principal component as great as possible, so that the many-dimension problem can be reduced to a single-dimension one, and at combining PCA with stepwise regression analysis to parameterize the relationship between El Niño events and the anomalies in hydrographic factors along 137°E in summer. The results show that the hydrography on 30–50 m levels at 7–9°N along 137°E in summer is very closely correlated with El Niño events because of the thermocline movement caused by enhanced upwelling in this area during El Niño years.     

Upwelling and sedimentation dynamics

It is found that the mud distributions in the Huanghai Sea and East China Sea are extremely identical with the upwelling's in terms of locality and extent. The process of the mud formation is examined. It is concluded that vertical circulation i.e. upwelling plays a determinant role in the process and furthermore, it is inferred that wherever upwelling occurs on continental shelf, mud should be formed and, conversely, wherever downwelling takes place, mud should not exist, for which coarse sediment should substitute.     

Ship-board measurements and estimations of air-sea fluxes in the western tropical pacific during TOGA COARE

Direct air-sea flux measurements were made on R/V Kexue #1 at 4 ° S, 156 ° E during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean-Atmospheric Response Experiment (COARE) Intensive Observation Period (IOP). An array of six accelerometers was used to measure the motion of the anchored ship, and a sonic anemometer and Lyman-α hygrometer were used to measure the turbulent wind vector and specific humidity. The contamination of the turbulent wind components by ship motion was largely removed by an improvement of a procedure due to Shao based on the acceleration signals. The scheme of the wind correction for ship motion is briefly outlined. Results are presented from data for the best wind direction relative to the ship to minimize flow distortion effects. Both the time series and the power spectra of the sonic-measured wind components show swell-induced ship motion contamination, which is largely removed by the accelerometer correction scheme. There was less contamination in the longitudinal wind component than in the vertical and transverse components. The spectral characteristics of the surface-layer turbulence properties are compared with those from previous land and ocean results. Momentum and latent heat fluxes were calculated by eddy correlation and compared to those estimated by the inertial dissipation method and the TOGA COARE bulk formula. The estimations of wind stress determined by eddy correlation are smaller than those from the TOGA COARE bulk formula, especially for higher wind speeds, while those from the bulk formula and inertial dissipation technique are generally in agreement. The estimations of latent heat flux from the three different methods are in reasonable agreement. The effect of the correction for ship motion on latent heat fluxes is not as large as on momentum fluxes.     

Variability of the western Pacific warm pool structure associated with El Niño

Climate Dynamics - Sea surface temperature (SST) structure inside the western Pacific warm pool (WPWP) is usually overlooked because of its distinct homogeneity, but in fact it possesses a clear...     

A rational boundary condition for simulating pollutants diffusive fields

How to determine the future open boundary conditions of the diffusive equation for certain bays or estuaries is still a question, although the present conditions can be easily obtained by observation.In this paper, a new concept "the effective reach" led to the conclusion on theopen boundary for the case n- 1 was confirmed by some numerical experiments. This rational boundary condition for simulating the pollutants diffusive fields can be effectively applied to environmental problems.     

Intraseasonal variability of the equatorial Pacific Ocean and its relationship with ENSO based on Self-Organizing Maps analysis

We investigated the intraseasonal variability of equatorial Pacific subsurface temperature and its relationship with El Nino-Southern Oscillation(ENSO) using Self-Organizing Maps(SOM) analysis.Variation in intraseasonal subsurface temperature is mainly found along the thermocline.The SOM patterns concentrate in basin-wide seesaw or sandwich structures along an east-west axis.Both the seesaw and sandwich SOM patterns oscillate with periods of 55 to 90 days,with the sequence of them showing features of equatorial intraseasonal Kelvin wave,and have marked interannual variations in their occurrence frequencies.Further examination shows that the interannual variability of the SOM patterns is closely related to ENSO;and maxima in composite interannual variability of the SOM patterns are located in the central Pacific during CP El Nino and in the eastern Pacific during EP El Nino.The se results imply that some of the ENSO forcing is manife sted through changes in the occurrence frequency of intraseasonal patterns,in which the change of the intraseasonal Kelvin wave plays an important role.     

南黄海秋末温盐度垂直结构及其与流系关系的分析

自五十年代末以来，我国对南黄海124°E以西海区曾进行过不少的调查研究，对该海区的水文特征、水团结构和海流系统已有了基本的了解。但由于资料的限制，对124°E以东海区的情况了解尚少，所以有些问题，如黄海冷水团内部的温盐结构，黄海暖流以何种形式和以何路径进入南黄海等等，并不十分清楚。因此本文引用1983年11月中国科学院海洋研究所和美国伍兹霍尔海洋研究所在南黄海联合调查获得的Mark-III CTD 资料和浮标测流资料(站位见图1)，拟对南黄海秋末温、盐度垂直结构及其与流系之间的关系作一初步探讨。     

船上海气之间湍流通量的观测研究

用６个加速度计组阵系统来监测船体姿态和运动，校正船上观测到的风湍流资料，然后用涡动相关技术计算海气之间动量，热量和水汽通量，结果表明，本观测系统可精确地消除船体运动对风湍流的影响，并获得精确的海气湍流通量。     

东海北部一个夏季气旋型涡旋的初步分析

近十年来,随着海洋探测技术的发展,在世界各大洋里都发现了中尺度涡旋,这是物理海洋学上的重大进展之一。目前所发现的中尺度涡旋,不管是在大洋里,还是在极地区,一般均处于千米以上的深水区。但在陆架浅海区，海底摩擦要消耗大量的能量,是否也会出现这类涡旋,这是一个令人感兴趣的问题。 根据现有文献和我们对近几年东海水文调查资料的初步分析得知,在我国陆架区至少有两个气旋型涡旋,一个在台湾东北的彭佳屿附近海域,另一个在济州岛西南海域。对前者,管秉贤(1978)和M.Uda(1974)等均从冷水团的角度进行过研究,特别是日本学者在此海域进行了多次调査。至于后者,井上尚文(1975)曾根据1969年11月投放的“人工水母”(即底层流示踪器)的资料分析指出:“在黄海暖流和黄海沿岸流两股底层流的中间区域,有黄海冷水伸入。在秋、冬期间,南北流向呈反时针方向旋转。从而可以认为,以调查海区的中部(济州岛南面)海底为中心,有一个范围相当大的环流存在。”由此人们自然会提出这样一个问题:在春、夏两季,这一反时针方向的水平环流是否继续存在。尤其在夏季,自南北上进入黄海和东海的黑潮及其分支(对马暖流和黄海暖流)与黄海、东海沿岸流系交错汇合,盘踞在下层的冷水又极度发展,使得环流结构和水文状况较冬季复杂得多,这时的情况又将变得怎样?本文主要根据1972年7-8月常规水文观测资料,同时参照近几年的水文资料,对此问题作一初步探讨。 本文研究的重点海区的范围是30°30′-33°00′N,124°00′-127°E,如图1阴影部分所示。为了便于资料的分析,在绘制温、盐度等平面分布图时,将其范扩大到28°-34°N之间的大部分海域。 本文引用的资料主要来源于国家海洋局标准断面调查资料,东海渔业资源调査资料，日本气象厅海洋气象观测资料和南朝鲜水产振兴院海洋观测资料。