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2008 Vol. 27, No. 3

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Ocean and climate sciences taking grand challenges and extraordinary opportunities: introduction to COAA 2007 special sections
ZHENG Quanan, QIAO Fangli, YANG Shi-Keng
2008, (3): 1-3.
Abstract:
In this universe, the earth is a unique breeding ground for living beings.It bares the evolutions, sustains the survival and enriches the development of human species.
A modification to the Munk wind-driven ocean circulation theory
ZHANG Qinghua, QU Yuanyuan, CHEN Shuiming
2008, (3): 4-10.
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In order to fulfill the no-slip condition at the western and eastern boundaries of the ocean basin, introduced "effective wind stress", which has much larger spatial variations towards the boundaries than in the ocean interior.The effective wind stre...
Surface current field and seasonal variability in the Kuroshio and adjacent regions derived from satellite-tracked drifter data
HU Xiaomin, XIONG Xuejun, QIAO Fangli, GUO Binghuo, LIN Xiaopei
2008, (3): 11-29.
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The multiyear averaged surface current field and seasonal variability in the Kuroshio and adjacent regions are studied.The data used are trajectories and (1/4)° latitude by (1/4)° longitude mean currents derived from 323 Argos drifters deployed by Ch...
The role of surface waves in the ocean mixed layer
QIAO Fangli, YANG Yongzeng, XIA Changshui, YUAN Yeli
2008, (3): 30-37.
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Previously, most ocean circulation models have overlooked the role of the surface waves.As a result, these models have produced insufficient vertical mixing, with an under-prediction of the mixing layer (ML) depth and an over-prediction of the sea su...
On generation source sites of internal waves in the Luzon Strait
ZHENG Quanan, SONG Y Tony, LIN Hui, HU Xiaomin, MENG Junmin, WANG Dan
2008, (3): 38-50.
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This effort aims to determine the generation source sites in the Luzon Strait for energetic, long-crest, transbasin internal waves (IW) observed in the northern South China Sea (NSCS).The roles of islands distributed on eastern side of the strait, Ku...
Internal solitary waves in the East China Sea
LI Xiaofeng, ZHAO Zhongxiang, HAN Zhen, XU Liuxiong
2008, (3): 51-59.
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A European Space Agency's ENVISAT advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) image covering Zhejiang coastal water in the East China Sea (ECS) was acquired on 1 August 2007.This image shows that there are about 20 coherent internal solitary wave (ISW) ...
Dynamical analysis of mesoscale eddy-induced ocean internal waves using linear theories
XU Qing, ZHENG Quanan, LIN Hui, LIU Yuguang, SONG Y Tony, YUAN Yeli
2008, (3): 60-69.
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This study aims to explore generation mechanisms of the ocean internal wave using the dynamical analysis methods based on linear theories.Historical cruise measurements and recent synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations of mesoscale eddies with d...
Barrier and compensation layers in the East China Sea
CHEN Xianyao, QIAO Fangli, WANG Qin, WANG Xiuhong, YUAN Yeli
2008, (3): 70-78.
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Climatology of the isothermal layer depth (ILD) and the mixed layer depth (MLD) has been produced from in-situ temperature-salinity observations in the East China Sea (ECS) since 1925.The methods applied on the global are used to compute the ILD and ...
Observations and modeling of the ice-ocean conditions in the coastal Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
JIN Meibing, WANG Jia, MIZOBATA Kohei, HU Haoguo, SHIMADA Koji
2008, (3): 79-87.
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The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas include several important hydrological features:inflow of the Pacific water, Alaska coast current (ACC), the seasonal to perennial sea ice cover, and landfast ice along the Alaskan coast.The dynamics of this coupled ice-...
Subseasonal features of the Asian summer monsoon in the NCEP climate forecast system
Song YANG, WEN Min, R Wayne HIGGINS
2008, (3): 88-103.
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The operational climate forecast system (CFS) of the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction provides climate predictions over the world, and CFS products are becoming an important source of information for regional climate predictions in ma...
The effect of the wave-induced mixing on the upper ocean temperature in a climate model
HUANG Chuanjiang, QIAO Fangli, SONG Zhenya
2008, (3): 104-111.
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The significant underestimation of sea surface temperature (SST) and the temperature in the upper ocean is one of common problems in present climate models.The influence of the wave-induced mixing on SST and the temperature in the upper ocean was exa...
Simulation evaluation and future prediction of the IPCC-AR4 GCMs on the extreme temperatures in China
WANG Ji, JIANG Zhihong, SONG Jie, LOU Dejun
2008, (3): 112-123.
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On the basis of the temperature observations during 1961-2000 in China, seven coupled general circulation models' (GCMs) extreme temperature products are evaluated supplied by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 4th Assessment Report (IPC...
“Trends” and variations of global oceanic evaporation data sets from remote sensing
CHIU Long S, CHOKNGAMWONG R, XING Yukun, YANG Ruixin, SHIE Chung-Lin
2008, (3): 124-135.
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The variability in global oceanic evaporation data sets was examined for the period 1988-2000.These data sets are satellite estimates based on bulk aerodynamic formulations and include the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Satellite-based Surface Turb...
Air-sea carbon fluxes and their controlling factors in the Prydz Bay in the Antarctic
GAO Zhongyong, CHEN Liqi, GAO Yuan
2008, (3): 136-146.
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The Prydz Bay in the Antarctic is an important area in the Southern Ocean due to its unique geographic feature.It plays an important role in the carbon cycle in the Southern Ocean.To investigate the distributions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere a...
Wind impact on pollutant transport in a shallow estuary
XU Hongzhou, LIN Jing, SHEN Jian, WANG Dongxiao
2008, (3): 147-160.
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A three-dimensional numerical model, EFDC (environmental fluid dynamics code) is applied to the Pamlico River Estuary (PRE) in eastern North Carolina of the United States to examine the wind impact on pollutant age distributions and residence time.A ...
Research Notes
Year aridity index patterns in northwest China and the relationship to summer North Atlantic sea surface temperature
YAN Yan, ZHAO Xinyi, ZHOU Liping
2008, (3): 161-171.
Abstract:
Aim to linking the variability of drought in northwest China to the oceanic influence of North Atlantic SSTs at the background of global warming and at the regional climate change shifting stages, year aridity index variations in northwest China and ...