经向风应力在热带不稳定海气相互作用中的角色

利用1951-2000年北太平洋海温和副高特征量资料，探讨夏半年副高与前期海温的关系，发现影响副高活动的海温关键区赤道东太平洋前期信息最明显，从前期秋季持续至春季都保持与夏半年各月副高强度、西伸脊点位置的高相关；ENS0事件的形成超前于副高强度的转折约半年时间；El Nino年副高持续偏强偏西，La Nina年则相反，脊线位置也有所反映，但不如强度与西伸显著。在此基础上进一步分析表明，福建雨季降水、副高强度与Nino 3区海温存在着大约相一致的年代际振荡与突变时间；雨季降水分布的异常直接受到副高活动的影响，而副高活动又明显受ENS0循环的制约，因而关注赤道东太平洋海温异常及ENS0信息对福建雨季降水分布趋势的预测旦有重要意义。

ROLE OF MERIDIONAL WIND STRESS IN THE TROPICAL UNSTABLE AIR-SEA INTERACTION

With a simple tropical coupled ocean-atmosphere model, this paper presents an analysis to understand the relative role of the meridional and zonal wind stresses in the tropical unstable air-sea interaction. The roles of the zonal wind stress, the meridional wind stress and the both are considered respectively into the coupled system. It is demonstrated that the meridional component of the wind stress does not lead to any instability under the local thermal balance assumption, but it does lead to a weak instability under the sea surface temperature advection assumption. Unstable air-sea interaction is dominated by the zonal component of the wind stress, suggesting that ignoring the meridional wind stress is approximately legitimate in studying the tropical unstable air-sea interaction.