Three-Dimensional Structure of Optimal Nonlinear Excitation for Decadal Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation
文献类型：CNKI期刊论文
| 作者 | ZU Zi-Qing; MU Mu; Henk A.DIJKSTRA |
| 发表日期 | 2013-11-16 |
| 出处 | Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters
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| 关键词 | thermohaline circulation decadal variability conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation optimal precursor nonlinear processes |
| 英文摘要 | The decadal variability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation(THC) is investigated within a three-dimensional ocean circulation model using the conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation method. The results show that the optimal initial perturbations of temperature and salinity exciting the strongest decadal THC variations have similar structures: the perturbations are mainly in the northwestern basin at a depth ranging from 1500 to 3000 m. These temperature and salinity perturbations act as the optimal precursors for future modifications of the THC, highlighting the importance of observations in the northwestern basin to monitor the variations of temperature and salinity at depth. The decadal THC variation in the nonlinear model initialized by the optimal salinity perturbations is much stronger than that caused by the optimal temperature perturbations, indicating that salinity variations might play a relatively important role in exciting the decadal THC variability. Moreover, the decadal THC variations in the tangent linear and nonlinear models show remarkably different characteristics, suggesting the importance of nonlinear processes in the decadal variability of the THC. |
| 文献子类 | CNKI期刊论文 |
| 资助机构 | supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program,Grant No.2012CB417404) |
| 卷 | v.6期:06页:8-14 |
| 语种 | 英文; |
| 分类号 | P434 |
| ISSN号 | 1674-2834 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/190652]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院海洋研究所 |
| 作者单位 | 1.InstituteforMarineandAtmosphericResearchUtrecht,DepartmentofPhysicsandAstronomy,UtrechtUniversity 2.StateKeyLaboratoryofNumericalModelingforAtmosphericSciencesandGeophysicalFluidDynamics(LASG),InstituteofAtmosphericPhysics,ChineseAcademyofSciences 3.UniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences 4.KeyLaboratoryofOceanCirculationandWave,InstituteofOceanology,ChineseAcademyofSciences |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | ZU Zi-Qing,MU Mu,Henk A.DIJKSTRA. Three-Dimensional Structure of Optimal Nonlinear Excitation for Decadal Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation. 2013. |
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