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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
卷 124, 期 11, 页码 7575-7590出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2019JC015339
关键词
sea-level change; sea-level variability; decadal variability; tropical Pacific; state estimation
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资金
- NSF [OCE-1558966, OCE-1834739]
- NASA Physical Oceanography program
- NASA Modeling, Analysis and Prediction program
- NASA Cryospheric Science program
Satellite altimetry reveals substantial decadal variability in sea level zeta across the tropical Pacific during 1993-2015. An ocean state estimate that faithfully reproduces the observations is used to elucidate the origin of these low-frequency tropical Pacific zeta variations. Analysis of the hydrostatic equation reveals that recent decadal zeta changes in the tropical Pacific are mainly thermosteric in nature, related to changes in upper-ocean heat content. A forcing experiment performed with the numerical model suggests that anomalous wind stress was an important driver of the relevant heat storage and thermosteric variation. Closed budget diagnostics further clarify that the wind-stress-related thermosteric zeta variation resulted from the joint actions of large-scale ocean advection and local surface heat flux, such that advection controlled the budget over shorter, intraseasonal to interannual time scales, and local surface heat flux became increasingly influential at longer decadal periods. In particular, local surface heat flux was important in contributing to a recent reversal of decadal zeta trends in the tropical Pacific. Contributions from local surface heat flux partly reflect damping latent heat flux tied to wind-stress-driven sea-surface-temperature variations.
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