The intraseasonal oscillation （ISO; 14 97-day ocean was studied based on Argo observations periods） of temperature in the upper 2000 m of the global from 20052008. It is shown that near the surface the ISO existed mainly in a band east of 60°E, between 10°S and 10°N, and the region around the Antarctic Circumpolar Current （ACC）. At other levels analyzed, the ISOs also existed in the regions of the Kuroshio, the Gulf Stream, the Indonesian throughflow, the Somalia current, and the subtropical eountercurrent （STCC） of the North Pacific. The intraseasonal signals can be seen even at depths of about 2000 m in some regions of the global ocean. The largest amplitude of ISO appeared at the thermocline of the equatorial Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean, with maximum standard deviation （STD） exceeding 1.2°C. The ACC, the Kuroshio, and the Gulf Stream regions all exhibited large STD for all levels analyzed. Especially at 1000 m, the largest STD appeared in the south and southeast of South Africa a part of the ACC, with a maximum value that reached 0.5°C. The ratios of the intraseasonal temperature variance to the total variance at 1000 m and at the equator indicated that, in a considerable part of the global deep ocean, the ISO was dominant in the variations of temperature, since such a ratio exceeded even 50% there. A case study also confirmed the existence of the ISO in the deep ocean. These results provide useful information for the design of field observations in the global ocean. Analysis and discussion are also given for the mechanism of the ISO.
Chlorophyll-a(Chl-a) blooms caused by typhoon Namtheun(2004) were investigated by combining multi-satellite ob...
Tao Xian 1,Yuan-Jian Yang 1,2,Liang Sun 1,* and Yun-Fei Fu 11 Laboratory of Atmospheric Observation and Climatological Environment,School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei,Anhui,230026,China12 Anhui Institute of Meteorological Sciences,Hefei 230031,China Laboratory of Atmospheric Observation and Climatological Environment,School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei,Anhui,230026,China
This letter obtains a typhoon-like vortex solution by solving the Bragg-Hawthorne equation.The solution describes spiral paths of fluid material element on the Bernoulli surface,whereas some new exact solutions are obtained which are bounded in the whole region.The first one is a continued umbrella vortex solution,which is a typhoon-like vortex.The second one is a multi-planar solution,which is periodic in z-coordinate.Within each layer,there is an umbrella vortex solution similar to the first one.The above explicit solutions can be applied to the study of radial structure of typhoon.Both the solutions and the approaches used in the present work can also be applied to other complex flows.
L.Sun 1,2,a) 1) School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China 2) LASG,Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China
The formation of the Kuroshio large meander in summer 2004 was investigated by using the cruise data,Argo profiles data,and satellite remote sensing data.The authors validated the point that cyclonic eddies contrib-uted to the large meander.Besides,.the impacts of ty-phoons on Kuroshio meanders were also studied.From 29 July to 4 August,the typhoons stirred the ocean and up-welled the deep water,which enhanced the existed cyc-lonic eddy,and immediately made a drastic meander of the Kuroshio.Moreover,the unexpected typhoons in June 2004 also contributed to the initial meander at the Tokara Strait.The result suggests an alternative meander mecha-nism of the Kuroshio path via the typhoon-eddy-Kuroshio interactions.It is argued that typhoons accompanied with cyclonic eddies,might play crucial roles in meanders of the Kuroshio.This will provide a more comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the western boundary flows,like the Kuroshio and the Gulf Stream,and will be useful in eddy-resolution models.
