On the connection between South Pacific subtropical spiciness anomalies and decadal equatorial variability in an ocean general circulation model

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	On the connection between South Pacific subtropical spiciness anomalies and decadal equatorial variability in an ocean general circulation model
	Luo Yiyong; Rothstein LM; Zhang Ronghua; Busalacchi AJ
	2005-10-06
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
卷号	110 期号:C10 页码:C10002
摘要	Simulations from a 49-year, realistically forced numerical model experiment indicate that decadal variability of temperature and salinity along the equator originates from subsurface spiciness anomalies in the South Pacific. Through western boundary and interior pathways in the thermocline, the subsurface anomalies in the South Pacific are first transferred westward and then northward, eventually appearing along the equator. The large spiciness anomalies in the South Pacific are formed in the eastern subtropics where large unstable salinity gradients are present in conjunction with weak stratification and strong mixing during winters. Our analysis shows that positive anomalies are generated in late winter by diapycnal mixing across isopycnal surfaces that are not exposed to the surface, i.e., through the injection process, in agreement with Yeager and Large ( 2004). In addition, we show that spiciness anomalies can also be created along isopycnals that outcrop to the surface through the subduction process, although this process alone is not enough to explain a significant part of the decadal variability along the equator based upon an active tracer experiment. Both the injection and subduction processes are responsible for forming positive subsurface anomalies in the eastern subtropical South Pacific, while negative anomalies there can be generated by subduction of negative surface anomalies and accumulation via isopycnal advection.
关键词	North Pacific Tropical Pacific Thermocline Variability Temperature Anomalies Atlantic Thermocline Numerical-simulation Water Pathways Wind Stress Gcm Subduction
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/18142
专题	海洋环流与波动重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Luo Yiyong,Rothstein LM,Zhang Ronghua,et al. On the connection between South Pacific subtropical spiciness anomalies and decadal equatorial variability in an ocean general circulation model[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS,2005,110(C10):C10002.
APA	Luo Yiyong,Rothstein LM,Zhang Ronghua,&Busalacchi AJ.(2005).On the connection between South Pacific subtropical spiciness anomalies and decadal equatorial variability in an ocean general circulation model.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS,110(C10),C10002.
MLA	Luo Yiyong,et al."On the connection between South Pacific subtropical spiciness anomalies and decadal equatorial variability in an ocean general circulation model".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS 110.C10(2005):C10002.

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