期刊
JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 70, 期 6, 页码 521-534出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-014-0248-2
关键词
Central Mode Water; Formation; Fronts; Mesoscale eddies; Decadal variability
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资金
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science (KAKENHI) [21340133, 25287118]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) [22106007, 25121502]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24121002, 22106007, 25287118, 26292099] Funding Source: KAKEN
Hydrographic data east of Japan from five research cruises and Argo profiling floats in spring 2003 have been analyzed to examine the relationship of the formation of Central Mode Water (CMW) and Transition Region Mode Water (TRMW) in late winter 2003 to thermohaline fronts and mesoscale eddies. TRMW and the denser variety of CMW (D-CMW) were formed continuously just south of the subarctic frontal zone between 155 degrees E and 165 degrees W with little relation to eddies, suggesting that the absence of the permanent thermocline and halocline in this area is essential for the formation. The lighter variety of CMW (L-CMW) was formed south of the Kuroshio bifurcation front and east of 165 degrees E, partly in an anticyclonic eddy associated with the Kuroshio Extension. Some portion of D-CMW and L-CMW likely had been subducted to the permanent pycnocline by crossing southward the Kuroshio bifurcation front and the Kuroshio Extension front, respectively. In contrast, the formation of these waters in the western regions was inactive and was significantly different from that described previously using multiyear Argo float data. West of 155 degrees E, TRMW and D-CMW were formed only in two anticyclonic eddies that had been detached from the Kuroshio Extension 1-2 years ago. L-CMW was hardly formed west of 165 degrees E, which might be related to the upstream Kuroshio Extension being in its stable state characterized by low regional eddy activity.
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