Journal
CHINESE JOURNAL OF OCEANOLOGY AND LIMNOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 1073-1079Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s00343-010-0030-2
Keywords
submesoscale activity; vertical pumping; northern South China Sea (NSCS)
Categories
Funding
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [KZCX1-YW-12-04, KZCX2-YW-201]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
We applied a primitive equation ocean model to simulate submesoscale activities and processes over the shelf of the northern South China Sea (NSCS) with a one-way nesting technology for downscaling. The temperature and density fields showed that submesoscale activities were ubiquitous in the NSCS shelf. The vertical velocity was considerably enhanced in submesoscale processes and could reach an average of 58 m per day in the subsurface. At this point, the mixed layer depth also was deepened along the front, and the surface kinetic energy also increased with the intense vertical movement induced by submesoscale activity. Thus, submesoscale stirring/mixing is important for tracers, such as temperature, salinity, nutrients, dissolved organic, and inorganic carbon. This result may have implication for climate and biogeochemical investigations.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available