期刊
ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA
卷 32, 期 11, 页码 74-81出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13131-013-0380-7
关键词
Southern Hemisphere supergyre; thermohaline tendency; steric height; South Pacific
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41006013]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) [2008AA121701]
- Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [201205010]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2010CB950301]
The Southern Hemisphere subtropical supergyre at intermediate depths connects all three ocean basins and plays a significant role in responding and conveying the climate-change-related variations in the global ocean. On the basis of the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) ocean reanalysis, the thermohaline variability and southward shift of the mid-depth supergyre are demonstrated. The steric height of the subsurface relative to 1 500 m (400-1 500 m) from the SODA depicts exactly the flow patterns and variability of the oceanic supergyre. During 1958-2007 the water masses in the gyre interiors become cooler/fresher, with the significant exceptions of the Agulhas Current system and Agulhas leakage. The results also exhibit a pronounced strengthening of the inter-basin connection of the supergyre, and the strongest southward shift, by about 2.5A degrees over the whole period, occurs in the central-south Pacific, which is associated with the changes in the basin-scale wind forcing.
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