| DUAN Yongliang,HOU Yijun,LIU Hongwei,LIU Yahao. 2013. The watermass variability and southward shift of the Southern Hemispheremid-depth supergyre. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 32(11):74－81 |
| The watermass variability and southward shift of the Southern Hemispheremid-depth supergyre |
| The watermass variability and southward shift of the Southern Hemispheremid-depth supergyre |
| Received:November 30, 2011 Revised:December 17, 2012 |
| DOI：DOI: 10.1007/s13131-013-0380-7 |
| Key words:Southern Hemisphere supergyre thermohaline tendency steric height South Pacific |
| 中文关键词: Southern Hemisphere supergyre thermohaline tendency steric height South Pacific |
| 基金项目:The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 41006013;the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) under contract No. 2008AA121701;the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract No. 201205010;the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under contract No. 2010CB950301. |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | DUAN Yongliang | Center for Ocean and Climate Research, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China
Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China | | | HOU Yijun | Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China | yjhou@ms.qdio.ac.cn | | LIU Hongwei | Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China | | | LIU Yahao | Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China | |
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| Abstract: |
| 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 themid-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 2.5° over the whole period, occurs in the central-south Pacific, which is associated with the changes in the basin-scale wind forcing. |
| 中文摘要: |
| 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 themid-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 2.5° 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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