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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 46, 期 5, 页码 1361-1376出版社
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JPO-D-15-0147.1
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- Program in Climate Change (PCC) at UW
- NASA [NNX09AU71G, NNX11AX79G]
- NOAA/JISAO [NA17RJ1232, NA15OAR4320063]
- Office of Naval Research Grant [N00014-15-1-2254]
- NASA [104939, NNX09AU71G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
During each summer monsoon, the Bay of Bengal is inundated by a large amount of rain and river discharge. The effects of this freshening are gradually reversed over the course of the year, with near-surface salinities typically returning to their presummer monsoon levels before the start of the next rainy season. While the forcing responsible for the summertime freshening is clear, the processes that act to restore the bay's salinity are not well understood. To examine these processes, the authors construct a basin-integrated, near-surface, seasonal salinity budget using data-assimilated output from the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). From this salinity budget, it is deduced that vertical salt fluxes are primarily responsible for counterbalancing the near-surface freshening caused by the summertime freshwater fluxes. These vertical salt fluxes are largest during the months that immediately follow the summer monsoon, when the near-surface halocline is strongest. These results must be tempered with the knowledge that HYCOM misrepresents some key features of the bay's salinity field. In particular, the model tends to overestimate salinity along the East Indian Coastal Current during its equatorward phase. Notwithstanding these biases, these results still suggest that vertical processes have a prominent role in the bay's near-surface salinity budget.
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