棉兰老岛以东反气旋涡的Argo观测研究

报道了2003年1月至10月期间,由布放于西北太平洋中的Argo剖面浮标捕获的位于棉兰老岛以东海域的反气旋涡。该涡中心位于8.7°N、127.6°E附近,距大陆坡不远,沿等深线走向呈椭圆形分布。其长轴(NW-SE)约200km,短轴(NE-SW)长约120km。Argo浮标的漂移轨迹及其在表层及1 500db层的漂移速度场表明,该反气旋涡位于温跃层以下,中层海洋特征。在1 500db层上,涡的外围平均切向速度为11.9—14.0cm.s-1,旋转周期约为40d。温、盐度断面分布表明,该反气旋涡内的温盐结构非常复杂,可能与源自南、北半球的中层水团在涡旋内交汇并发生变性有关。     

Hydrographic effects of an intense “medicane” over the central-eastern Mediterranean Sea in 2018

The formation of cyclones over the sea surface is driven by air-sea interaction with feedbacks on wave generation, thermohaline structures, and biochemical properties of upper-ocean layers. In the Mediterranean basin, strong cyclonic systems having tropical-like characteristics are called “medicanes”. The consequences of such events are usually assessed over the land, however, hydrographic effects are particularly difficult to be quantified mostly due to the rarity of oceanographic in-situ monitoring systems. In this study, the hydrographic effects of a high-impact medicane, crossing the central-eastern Mediterranean in late September 2018 are investigated mainly based on Argo float measurements. We traced its hydrographic fingerprint and examined its effects on the upper-layer physical properties by analyzing temperature and salinity profiles from floats that overlapped with its track. Float data is supported by satellite sea surface temperature reanalysis data and meteorological records. The synergistic effects of intense evaporation and vertical mixing mechanisms triggered by the medicane, resulted in abrupt surface cooling, especially in the Ionian and Aegean Seas. A relatively homogenous decrease of temperature in the upper 50-m-depth layer followed, along with the deepening of the mixed-layer depth, corresponding to an estimated per profile average deficit of (-2.72 ± 1.23) x 10⁸ J m⁻² in the ocean heat content. Simultaneously, significant upper-layer freshening occurred because of vertical mixing and heavy rainfall. However, a salinity increase in the subsurface waters was observed after the medicane event, which is associated with both horizontal advection and vertical mixing which followed the weakening of the Atlantic Water signal and the dominance of the Levantine Surface Water in this zone. Our findings highlight strong, short-scale hydrographic alterations made available due to the expansion of the marginal seas operational oceanographic network.     

一个西太平洋冷涡影响下的会聚区声传播变异特征分析

以Argo资料给出的一个典型西太平洋冬季冷涡为环境背景,应用BELLHOP高斯束射线模型计算声场,通过比较环境水平不变与环境水平变化声场的差异性,得出了涡旋环境和地形变化共同影响下会聚区声场出现的一些变异特征。分析结果表明,涡西侧声场在深海平坦地形条件下会聚区保持完整,从涡外向涡内传播时会聚区距离逐渐变小,反之距离变大,同时,涡中心附近的冷水上涌破坏了近表层的表面声道,使声传播损失突然增大。涡东侧的海山地形阻碍了会聚区反转,使声场出现了复杂的变异特征,如会聚区的截断、上反转点的抬升或下降、声线的多途传播以及增益位置的不规则变化等。这些声场变异特征是由西太平洋的背景环境、涡中的水文非均匀分布以及地形变化共同引起的。当地形变化不影响会聚区反转时,声场变化主要受涡锋面两侧水文环境差异的影响,典型特征是会聚区的偏移和表面声道的生消;当地形变化对会聚区反转产生明显的干扰时,地形条件对于声场能量分布具有主导作用,非均匀水文环境的影响弱化,但仍起到重要的调制作用。     

Argo大洋观测资料的同化及其在短期气候预测和海洋分析中的应用

国际Argo(Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography)计划的实施,提供了前所未有的全球深海大洋0～2000 m水深范围内的海水温度和盐度观测资料,在大气和海洋科研业务中应用这一全新的资料,是深入认识大气和海洋变异、提高我国气候预测、海洋监测分析和预报能力的一个关键所在.通过开发非线性温—盐协调同化方案和利用同化高度计资料来调整模式的温度和盐度场,建立了可同化包括Argo等多种海洋观测资料的全球海洋资料变分同化系统,提高了对全球海洋的监测分析能力.实现了海洋资料同化系统与全球海气耦合模式的耦合,显著提高了短期气候预测水平.利用Argo资料改进了海洋动力模式中的物理过程参数化方案,有效提高了海洋模式对真实大洋的模拟能力和对厄尔尼诺/拉尼娜的预测能力.开发了利用Argo浮标漂流轨迹推算全球海洋表层和中层流的方法,提高了推算的全球表层流、中层流资料质量,有效弥补了洋流观测的匮乏.     

ARGO观测资料的2种同化方案

使用POM(Princeton Ocean Model)海洋环流模式模拟西北太平洋海域的温盐场,之后运行中国科学院大气物理研究所同化系统(Ocean Variational Analysis System,OVALS),使用Argo观测网格化产品进行2006年整个计算域三维变分同化。无论从平面分布还是断面分布来看,除海表面温度(SST)外,温度同化的效果都比较好,尤其是800 m水深以浅,均方差值甚至能减小1.0℃以上。而且随着同化积分时间的增加,同化后误差减小越来越显著,3、4月份的同化效果明显高于1、2月份。与OFES(OGCM for the Earth Simulator)海洋模式结果相比,同化在一定程度上改进了模拟结果。在POM(Princeton Ocean Model)数值模拟基础上,利用3个西太平洋代表性浮标的观测资料,运用松弛逼近法同化2006年6月断面数据。当松弛系数取0.5时,模拟时间大约半天,模拟值就能快速逼近或完全等于观测值。虽然只对观测剖面进行了数据同化,但该同化可以产生更大范围的效果,而且这种效果可以持续更长时间。     

基于距平分析的Argo海表温度场重构

提出基于距平分析的Argo海表温度场(SST)重构方法,即在Argo浮标观测点提取温度距平值序列进行Kriging插值生成距平场,并叠加气候态SST的方法重构Argo海温场。以Argo数据相对稀少的2003年8月份和Argo数据相对较多的2012年8月份印度洋海域(60°S—30°N,25°—125oE)为例,重构水平分辨率为1°×1°的海表温度场。分析表明:(1)这种基于距平分析方法重构的海温场与对Argo数据直接Kriging插值获得的结果相比在精度上有大幅提高;(2)重构的温度场与最优插值海表温度场(OISSTV 2.0)的等温线具有高度的一致性,并且在Argo浮标附近海域有更好的细节表现;(3)即使在Argo数据相对稀少的海域,基于距平分析方法重构的海温场也能保持较高的精度要求,包括边缘海域和南大洋极锋附近均有较好表现。     

Argo观测剖面数据量的时间变化与周期分析

海洋渔业预报使用的遥感数据一般只能获得海洋表面的环境信息,而Argo数据可以为渔业预报提供较深处的温盐数据,为了在渔业预报中按其时间周期进行使用,需要计算它的周期以提高预报质量.通过功率谱估计计算出2001-2008年的数据存在较长的周期为62.7 d和117.5 d,较短的周期为4.9 d和9.8 d,同时还有一个约...     

南太平洋南极中层水的中尺度特征

The Argo float observations are used to investigate the mesoscale characteristics of the Antarctic Intermediate Water(AAIW) in the South Pacific in this paper. It is shown that a subsurface mesoscale phenomenon is probably touched by an Argo float during the float's ascent-descent cycles and is identified by the horizontal salinity gradient between the vertical temperature-salinity profiles. This shows that the transportation of the AAIW may be accompanied with the rich mesoscale characteristics. To derive the spatial length, time, and propagation characteristics of the mesoscale variability of the AAIW, the gridded temperature-salinity dataset ENACT/ENSEMBLE Version 3 constructed on the in-situ observations in the South Pacific since 2005 is used. The Empirical Mode Decomposition method is applied to decompose the isopycnal-averaged salinity anomaly from26.8 σθ–27.4 σθ, where the AAIW mainly resides, into the basin scale and two mesoscale modes. It is found that the first mesoscale mode with the length scale on the order of 1 000 km explains nearly 50% variability of the mesoscale characteristics of the AAIW. Its westward-propagation speeds are slower in the mid-latitude(around 1cm/s) and faster in the low latitude(around 6 cm/s), but with an increasing in the latitude band on 25°–30°S. The second mesoscale mode is of the length scale on the order of 500 km, explaining about 30% variability of the mesoscale characteristics of the AAIW. Its westward-propagation speed keeps nearly unchanged(around 0.5cm/s). These results presented the stronger turbulent motion of the subsurface ocean on the spatial scale, and also described the significant role of Argo program for the better understanding of the deep ocean.     

西北太平洋红外辐射计海表温度数据交叉比对分析

本文将西北太平洋海域作为研究区域,以2003—2009年的三个海表温度(sea surface temperature,SST)红外产品(AVHRR Pathfinder/NOAA,MODIS/Terra和MODIS/Aqua)为研究对象,分别与Argo浮标数据进行了真实性检验,同时红外产品之间也进行了交叉比对分析。通过评定产品间的差异及使用条件,为融合产品数据源选取和权重分配提供参考依据,用以提高融合产品的数据质量。结果表明,三种红外数据与Argo浮标的平均偏差在±0.2°C之间,均方根误差小于0.8°C,且存在明显的季节性变化,白天的平均偏差均是夏季为正、冬季为负,夜间的平均偏差基本均为负偏差,冬季比夏季的偏差更大,冬季的均方根误差较小;三种红外数据之间的平均偏差在±0.1°C之间,均方根误差小于0.6°C;三个红外产品在空间上均能反映西北太平洋海域的海表温度变化趋势,三个产品之间无明显优劣差异;尽管红外数据的空间覆盖率偏低,但是它提供了高精度和高特征分辨率的数据产品,并弥补了近岸海域缺乏观测数据的不足。     

Observations of Freshening in the Northwest Pacific Subtropical Gyre near Luzon Strait

Argo observations reveal that the salinity in the North Pacific subtropical gyre near Luzon Strait gradually declined by 0.2 (practical salinity scale used) from 2003 to 2007 over a depth range of 100 m to 200 m. Such freshening is also found in the outputs of the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) model. The possible mechanisms for the freshening are investigated using the surface freshwater flux (E-P) data, the ECCO outputs and a salt budget equation for the upper ocean. Our analysis indicates that the magnitude of the salinity change caused by the surface freshwater flux anomaly is far smaller than observed, suggesting that the surface freshwater flux anomaly is not sufficient to account for the observed freshening. In fact, the salinity anomaly is closely linked to a pronounced freshening at the northeast corner of the study area from 2003 to 2007. The advection of salinity anomalies in the western North Pacific Ocean between 25°N and 35°N via a southwestward flow in the “C–shaped” region associated with the Kuroshio system is the main mechanism responsible for the observed freshening in the study area.

RÉSUMÉ?[Traduit par la rédaction] Les observations Argo révèlent que la salinité dans le gyre subtropical du Pacifique Nord près du détroit de Luçon a graduellement diminué de 0,2 (en utilisant l’échelle de salinité pratique) entre 2003 et 2007 dans un intervalle de profondeur de 100 à 200 m. Un adoucissement comparable s'observe aussi dans les sorties du modèle ECCO (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean). Nous examinons les mécanismes pouvant expliquer l'adoucissement au moyen des données de flux d'eau douce en surface (E–P), des sorties de l'ECCO et de l’équation du bilan du sel pour la couche supérieure de l'océan. Notre analyse indique que l'ampleur du changement de salinité causé par l'anomalie de flux d'eau douce en surface est beaucoup plus petite que ce qui est observé, ce qui suggère que l'anomalie de flux d'eau douce en surface ne suffit pas à expliquer l'adoucissement observé. En fait, l'anomalie de salinité est étroitement liée à un adoucissement prononcé dans le coin nord-est de la zone à l’étude de 2003 à 2007. L'advection des anomalies de salinité dans l'ouest du Pacifique Nord entre 25°N et 35°N par un écoulement vers le sud-ouest dans la région en forme de « C » associée au système du Kuroshio est le principal mécanisme responsable de l'adoucissement observé dans la zone à l’étude.