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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 50, 期 11, 页码 3205-3217出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-20-0082.1
关键词
Ocean circulation; Climate variability; Decadal variability; Oceanic variability; Trends
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资金
- ECCO Consortium funding
A recent paper by Hu et al. (https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax7727) has raised the interesting question of whether the ocean circulation has been speeding up'' in the last decades. Their result contrasts with some estimates of the lack of major trends in oceanic surface gravity waves and wind stress. In general, both the increased energy and implied power inputs of the calculated circulation correspond to a small fraction of the very noisy background values. An example is the implied power increase of about 3 x 10(8) W, as compared to wind energy inputs of order 10(12) W. Here the problem is reexamined using a state estimate that has the virtue of being energy, mass, etc. conserving. Because it is an estimate over an entire recent 26-yr interval, it is less sensitive to the strong changes in observational data density and distribution, and it does not rely upon nonconservative reanalyses.'' The focus is on the energy lying in the surface layers of the ocean. A potential energy increase is found, but it is almost completely unavailable-arising from the increase in mean sea level. A weak increase in kinetic energy in the top layer (10 m) is confirmed, corresponding to an increase of order 1 cm s(-1) yr(-1) over 26 years. An estimate of kinetic energy in the full water column shows no monotonic trend, but the changes in the corresponding available potential energy are not calculated here.
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