基于实测资料的南海北部台风“海鸥”致近惯性振荡研究

文章利用2014年9月南海东北部附近海域的A、B两个相距约20km的潜标数据, 分析了台风“海鸥”在南海东北部激发的近惯性振荡的垂向分布特征。结果表明, 台风过境在两站点激发了强烈的近惯性振荡, 其能量由海表向海洋内部传播; 近惯性能量在表层随着深度增加而增大, 最大值出现在次表层, 此后随着深度增加迅速衰减。但是两个观测站点的近惯性振荡垂向分布特征有较大的差别: A站点的近惯性振荡在不同深度上存在三个不同的垂向相速度, 而B站点的垂向相速度没有变化; 两站点的最大近惯性动能的大小及其所在深度不同, B站点比A站点的最大近惯性动能大15%左右。台风过后两个站点均出现由近惯性波f和半日内潮波D₂非线性相互作用产生的次级波动fD₂, 但其强度存在差异。台风后A站点fD₂在不同深度上有不同的变化, f和D₂相互作用较弱; 而B站点的fD₂在整个近惯性振荡影响深度内都是增强, 其fD₂和f频带的动能和流速在时空分布以及变化趋势上有较好的相关性。两站点的近惯性振荡垂向相速度以及次级波动fD₂的不同可能是水体层结的差异和涡旋的影响所导致的。

A study of near-inertial oscillations in the northern South China Sea based on in-situ observations during the passage of Typhoon Kalmaegi

In this study, the vertical characteristics of near-inertial oscillations (NIOs) induced by Typhoon Kalmaegi are analyzed by using data from two moorings about 20 km apart in the northeastern South China Sea in Sept. 2014. The results show that the energy of typhoon-induced NIOs, which propagates downward into the ocean interior, increases with depth in the upper layer and becomes maximum in the mid layer before dissipating with depth. However, we find that there is a large difference in vertical characteristics of typhoon-induced NIOs between the two moorings. The NIOs at mooring A had three different vertical phase velocities at different depths while the NIOs at mooring B showed invariable phase velocity. The value and depth of the maximum near-inertial kinetic energy (NIKE) are also different at the two moorings. The maximum NIKE was 15% greater at mooring B than at mooring A. After the passage of Kalmaegi, fD₂ via nonlinear wave interaction between f and D₂ occurred at the two moorings, except that the intensities of fD₂ at the two moorings were different. At mooring A, fD₂ changed with depth and its interaction between f and D₂ was weak. The energy of fD₂ at mooring B enhanced at the full depth, and the kinetic energy and velocities of fD₂ and f had a good correlation for their time-space distributions and variations. The difference of vertical phase velocity of NIOs and fD₂ at the two moorings may be caused by the effects of eddy and different stratifications.