其他摘要 | The surface and subsurface ocean circulation in the western tropical Pacific Ocean and the sea around the warm pool is complex and variable, consisting of several equatorial currents and western boundary currents, which directly influence and modulate the variability of the warm pool itself and the air-sea interaction process in the warm pool, which play an important role in the global climate system and have an impact on the climate environment of Asian. At the same time, the current system plays a key role in the zonal and meridional heat and mass transport of the ocean, the water exchange between the Indo-Pacific tropical water and northern and southern hemisphere water. In recent years, intra-seasonal variability of currents has been found to contribute significantly to the variability of currents in the western tropical Pacific based on in-situ observations. Therefore, it is important to study the intra-seasonal variability of the western Pacific currents to understand the multi-scale variability of the western Pacific current and to understand the global ocean heat and salt variability and material-energy redistribution.
Based on the in-situ observation data obtained from the mooring system and various ocean models outputs reanalysis data, this study focuses on the upper and deep currents variability of current velocities in key regions. An array of three profiler moorings observations east of Luzon Island revealed the intra-seasonal variability of Kuroshio meridional velocity, volume transport and spatial structure east of Luzon Island and their driven mechanisms, which spatial structure different from that of east of Taiwan Island and is dominated by the meridional transport mode, which enhance the knowledge of the Kuroshio variability structure in different regions. Based on the current velocity data observed by a full-depth mooring system, we revealed the vertical structure of multi-layer currents in the Philippine Sea, and the intra-seasonal variability of upper and deep currents, and their related physical mechanisms are further investigated.
Based on the ADCP data and HYCOM reanalysis data from three mooring systems at 18°N, this study reveals two significant intra-seasonal variability cycles of 50–60 days and 100 days of the Kuroshio meridional velocity and volume transport east of Luzon Island. Further analysis shows that the intra-seasonal variability of the Kuroshio east of Luzon Island is dominated by the meridional transport mode of the Kuroshio rather than the zonal migration mode. This is different from the Kuroshio east of Taiwan Island, which is thought to be dominated by the zonal migration variability. In addition, the volume transport of Kuroshio at 122.7°–123.3°E, 0–50 m, estimated from three mooring observations was 6.5±2.6 Sv (Sverdrup).
Combined with satellite altimeter data, further investigation shows that eddies of different regional play different roles in the intra-seasonal variability of the Kuroshio east of Luzon Island. The 50–60-day variability of the Kuroshio east of Luzon Island is modulated by eddies generated in the open ocean along the 18°N parallel to the west with a propagation speed of about 13 cm/s, a period of 56.6 days, and a wavelength of about 635 km. These eddies are generated by the baroclinic instability of the North Equatorial Current and the Subtropical Countercurrent system. The other major intra-seasonal variability, the 100-day period, is modulated by eddies generated in the North Equatorial Current regions (129°E, 15°N), which first propagates parallel to the west and then move northwest to the east of Luzon Island under the advection of the background flow field.
Intra-seasonal variability of deep currents was studied based on one near full-water depth mooing observations deployed at 130°E, 11°N from September 19, 2015 to October 22, 2019, and GLORYS2V4 reanalysis data. The results show that there are two major intra-seasonal variability period in the Philippine sea, 45 and 62 days, respectively, which exhibit a barotropic structure from the surface to the bottom. Specifically, the whole layer of currents from 250–5000 m has a significant 45-day variability, and a 62-day variability signal shown above 1500 m and below 2500 m layers. It is noteworthy that there has a strong intra-seasonal fluctuation at the depths of 5000 m.
Further studies combined with satellite altimeter data indicate that the 62-day intra-seasonal variability of the upper ocean current is modulated by the first baroclinic Rossby wave with a zonal wavelength of 684 km. In addition, the ENSO events have a significant effect on the intra-seasonal fluctuations of the upper ocean in the western Pacific. There are two super-strong intra-seasonal fluctuations in the western Pacific upper ocean, lagging the 2015/16 and 2018/19 El Niño events by 6 months, respectively. The baroclinic Rossby waves, excited by the positive wind stress vorticity anomaly in the eastern Pacific dominated by the El Niño event, propagate westward in the form of a negative SLA signal from the east-central Pacific to the western Pacific, modulating the intra-seasonal variability of the upper ocean in the Philippine Sea of the western Pacific.
The 45-day intra-seasonal variability present near full water depth and the 62-day variability in the deep ocean are mainly modulated by the barotropic Rossby mode in the basin. The intrinsic oscillation period in the Philippine basin depends on the actual topography. The more regular deep ocean basin in the Philippine Sea, with an east-west width of 900 km, excites the barotropic Rossby wave signal with about 45 days of intra-seasonal oscillations, while in the deep ocean below 5000 m, the corresponding basin has an east-west width of 640 km, which corresponds to 62 days of barotropic Rossby wave fluctuation variability in the deeper ocean. The trigger source of the basin barotropic Rossby mode oscillations in the deep ocean basin is further investigated, and it is found that for the 45-day variability, the wind field variability in the southern Philippine Sea region (126°–140°E, 5°–13°N) is more important. For the 62-day variability, the wind field in the northern Philippine Sea (15°–20°N) seems to be energizing the intra-seasonal fluctuations of resonances within the basin. In addition, verification of the deep ocean meridional flow velocity in the Philippine Sea using GLORYS2V4 reanalysis data shows that there is indeed a significant intra-seasonal variability signal throughout the deep ocean, and the period is in good agreement with the mooring observations, thus confirming the existence of intra-seasonal fluctuations of the basin barotropic Rossby mode modulation in the Philippine Sea.
In summary, the mooring observations in two key regions of the western Pacific Ocean revealed the characteristics of the intra-seasonal variability of different layers of currents and their associated physical mechanisms. Near the western boundary, the intra-seasonal variability of the Kuroshio east of Luzon Island (18°N, 123°E) is modulated by the propagating eddies, while in the open ocean (11°N, 130°E), the intra-seasonal variability of the upper ocean currents is mainly dominated by large-scale Rossby waves, and the intra-seasonal variability of the deep currents in the basin is mainly modulated by the basin barotropic Rossby modes. Meanwhile, the intra-seasonal fluctuations of the western Pacific upper ocean currents respond to ENSO events with a lag time of six months. |
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