Tianyu Wang, Zenghong Liu, Yan Du. A synthetic autonomous profiling float array in a Lagrangian particle tracking system[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. doi: 10.1007/s13131-024-2395-7
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Tianyu Wang, Zenghong Liu, Yan Du. A synthetic autonomous profiling float array in a Lagrangian particle tracking system[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. doi: 10.1007/s13131-024-2395-7
Tianyu Wang, Zenghong Liu, Yan Du. A synthetic autonomous profiling float array in a Lagrangian particle tracking system[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. doi: 10.1007/s13131-024-2395-7
Citation:
Tianyu Wang, Zenghong Liu, Yan Du. A synthetic autonomous profiling float array in a Lagrangian particle tracking system[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. doi: 10.1007/s13131-024-2395-7
State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510000, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
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Observation and Research Station of Global Ocean Argo System (Hangzhou), Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
Funds:
The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 42106022 and 42106024; the National Key Research and Development Program of China under contract No. 2021YFC3101502; the fund from Laoshan Laboratory under contract No. LSKJ202201500; the fund from Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) under contract No. SML2021SP102; and the fund from Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract Nos 133244KYSB20190031, 183311KYSB20200015, and SCSIO202201.
Over the past two decades, numerous countries have actively participated in the International Argo Program, working toward the global "OneArgo" goal. China's Argo program has deployed over 500 autonomous profiling floats in the Indo-Pacific, with 80 BD floats, equipped with the Beidou satellite communication system, currently operational. During the operation of the BD float network, we found that in addition to the limitation of floats battery, the loss may also be caused by communication loss due to the floats escaping from the Beidou-2’s short message coverage. In this study, float trajectories are simulated using velocity fields from an eddy-resolved resolution Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2) model and a Lagrangian particle tracking model programmed to represent the vertical motions of profiling floats. The simulations can help to explore both the representativeness and the predictability of profiling float displacements. By deploying a large number of synthetic floats in the Lagrangian particle tracking system, we construct probability density functions (PDFs) of the simulated-float trajectory among key oceans, for example, a joint region of East Indian-South China Sea-Northwest Pacific Ocean (5°–40°N, 70°–140°E), which is generally similar to the location of the present BD float network. These statistics can help to estimate the chance of floats drifting into shallow seas (such as the East China Sea) and out of the coverage of the Beidou satellite communication. With this knowledge changes to the future China’s Argo observing system could be made.
Figure 1. Launch positions of all China profiling floats since 2002. By February 7th, 2023, a total of 550 China profiling floats have been deployed. The different markers indicate the various types of floats (Access from China Argo Real-time Data Center, http://www.Argo.org.cn).
Figure 2. Bottom topography of East Indian-South China Sea-Northwest Pacific Ocean from the ECCO2 model. The 2000-m isobaths are marked by light-blue solid lines. Blue dashed line box represents nominal coverage of Beidou-2’s short message. Three subdomains are marked (colored solid lines) as the releasing regions of the simulated profiling floats in the following sections. Four main gyres of the Indo-Pacific low-latitude basin are marked by black lines with arrows.
Figure 3. The 2015-2022 mean SSH (m) from the AVISO-mapped product (a) and ECCO2 dataset (b), and the standard deviation of SSH from the AVISO-mapped product (c) and the ECCO2 model (d).
Figure 4. Schematic of one float cycle for a core Argo float, which includes descent, parking, deep profiling, and surface telemetry. The schematic map indicates the times when descent starts (DS), descent ends (DE), deep descent starts (DDS), ascent starts (AS), ascent ends (AE), and transmission ends (TE). The definitions are adopted from Ollitrault and Rannou (2013).
Figure 5. Lagrangian trajectories for simulated floats during 300-day model runs. All the floats were initially released in the east of the Luzon Straits (20°–28°N, 122°–127°E). The details of the simulation can be referenced in the description of Exp_1 in Table 2.
Figure 6. Lagrangian trajectories for simulated floats during 300-day model runs. All the floats were initially released in Kuroshio axis (with the velocity beyond 20 cm/s). The overlaid contour lines represent the geostrophic current velocity beyond 20 cm/s from the AVISO-mapped product with 10 cm/s interval.
Figure 7. The Lagrangian trajectories for simulated floats during 300-day model runs (a), the statistics (as a function of Latitudes) for the floats exiting the Beidou coverage through the eastern boundary (b) and the statistics (as a function of Longitudes) for the floats exiting the Beidou coverage through the southern boundary (c). All the floats were initially released in Philippine Sea (127°–135°E, 8°–25°N). Details can be referenced in the Exp_2 of Table 2. The number of floats drifting out of the Beidou II short message coverage is calculated based on their final locations. Blue dashed line box represents theoretical coverage of Beidou II short message.
Figure 8. The Lagrangian trajectories for simulated floats during 400-day model runs (a), the statistics (as a function of Latitudes) for the floats exiting the Beidou coverage through the eastern boundary (b) and the statistics (as a function of Longitudes) for the floats exiting the Beidou coverage through the southern boundary (c). All the floats were initially released in Philippine Sea (127°–135°E, 8°–25°N). Details can be referenced in the Exp_2 of Table 2. The number of floats drifting out of the Beidou II short message coverage is calculated based on their final locations. Blue dashed line box represents theoretical coverage of Beidou II short message.
Figure 9. The Lagrangian trajectories for simulated floats during 300-day model runs (a) and the statistics (as a function of Longitude) for the floats exiting the Beidou coverage through the southern boundary (b). All the floats were initially released in Bay of Bengal. Details can be referenced in the Exp_3 of Table 2.
Figure 10. Distribution of the float locations of the 1.5°× 1.5° synthetic float array over the Joint Oceans within the model frame at different time. Panels (a) to (d) represent the results at 0 day, 90 day, 360 day, 720 day, respectively. Blue dashed line box represents theoretical coverage of Beidou II short message.
Figure 11. Number of floats from the 1.5°× 1.5° synthetic float array drift out of the Beidou coverage as a function of modeled time period. The blue colored shading indicates the one standard deviation.
Figure 12. PDF of the 1.5°× 1.5° synthetic float array over the Joint Oceans within the model frame at different time (a. 180 days; b. 360 days; c. 720 days).
Figure 13. PDF change of the 1.5°× 1.5° synthetic float array over the Joint Oceans within the model frame at different time (a. PDF at 360 day minus that at 180 day; b. PDF at 720 day minus that at 360 day).
Figure 14. PDFs of the intensified single deployments of simulated floats (see Exp_5 in Table 2) in Kuroshio Extension (138°–164°E, 32°–38°N) (a) and the Bay of Bengal Monsoon region (82°–93°E, 5°–12°N) (b).
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