The Tropical Pacific–Indian Ocean Associated Mode Simulated by LICOM2.0 |
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摘 要: | Oceanic general circulation models have become an important tool for the study of marine status and change. This paper reports a numerical simulation carried out using LICOM2.0 and the forcing field from CORE. When compared with SODA reanalysis data and ERSST.v3 b data, the patterns and variability of the tropical Pacific–Indian Ocean associated mode(PIOAM) are reproduced very well in this experiment. This indicates that, when the tropical central–western Indian Ocean and central–eastern Pacific are abnormally warmer/colder, the tropical eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific are correspondingly colder/warmer. This further confirms that the tropical PIOAM is an important mode that is not only significant in the SST anomaly field, but also more obviously in the subsurface ocean temperature anomaly field. The surface associated mode index(SAMI) and the thermocline(i.e., subsurface) associated mode index(TAMI) calculated using the model output data are both consistent with the values of these indices derived from observation and reanalysis data. However, the model SAMI and TAMI are more closely and synchronously related to each other.
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The Tropical Pacific-Indian Ocean Associated Mode Simulated by LICOM2.0 |
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Authors: | Xin LI Chongyin LI |
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Abstract: | Oceanic general circulation models have become an important tool for the study of marine status and change. This paper reports a numerical simulation carried out using LICOM2.0 and the forcing field from CORE. When compared with SODA reanalysis data and ERSST.v3b data, the patterns and variability of the tropical Pacific-Indian Ocean associated mode (PIOAM) are reproduced very well in this experiment. This indicates that, when the tropical central-western Indian Ocean and central-eastern Pacific are abnormally warmer/colder, the tropical eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific are correspondingly colder/warmer. This further confirms that the tropical PIOAM is an important mode that is not only significant in the SST anomaly field, but also more obviously in the subsurface ocean temperature anomaly field. The surface associated mode index (SAMI) and the thermocline (i.e., subsurface) associated mode index (TAMI) calculated using the model output data are both consistent with the values of these indices derived from observation and reanalysis data. However, the model SAMI and TAMI are more closely and synchronously related to each other. |
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Keywords: | ocean general circulation model numerical simulation tropical Pacific-Indian Ocean associated mode subsurface ocean temperature anomaly |
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