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OCEAN DYNAMICS
卷 63, 期 8, 页码 979-993出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0636-y
关键词
Gulf of Tonkin; Qiongzhou Strait; Circulation; Water masses
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资金
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NECT-07-0781]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB403500]
- Guangxi Natural Science Foundation [2012GXNSFEA053001]
- program of Construction of prognostic system for circulation in Beibu Gulf and application for pollution transport
The circulation in the Gulf of Tonkin (Beibu Gulf) was studied using the Princeton Ocean Model, which was forced with the daily surface and lateral boundary fluxes for 2006 and 2007, as well as tidal harmonics and monthly climatological river discharges. In the southern Gulf, the vertically averaged circulation was anti-cyclonic in summer and changed to cyclonic in winter. Although it was highly correlated with the local wind, the southern gyre was driven primarily by the South China Sea (SCS) general circulation from the south. Flows in the Qiongzhou Strait that played a significant role in determining the circulation variability in the northeastern Gulf could be eastward or westward at any given day in summer or winter, but the seasonal mean current was eastward from late spring through summer and westward during the rest of the year, with an annual mean westward transport of similar to 0.1 Sv into the Gulf. Different water masses were distinguished at the surface with the warm and saline SCS water in the south, relatively fresh plume waters along the northern and western coasts of the Gulf, and the mixture of the two in between. At lower levels, two cold water masses were identified in the model, and each had T/S distributions qualitatively similar to the observations obtained in 2007. These two water masses were produced throughout the winter, sheltered from the surface warming by a thermocline as the season progressed, and eventually disappeared in late fall.
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