A subsurface pathway for low potential vorticity transport from the central North Pacific toward Taiwan Island

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Qinyu ^a   Hu, Haibo ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VORTICITY;

LOW POTENTIAL VORTICITY TRANSPORT; LOW POTENTIAL VORTICITY WATER; SUBSURFACE PATHWAY; SUBTROPICAL GYRE CIRCULATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GYRE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PYCNOCLINE; SUBSURFACE FLOW; VORTEX FLOW; WATER FLOW;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); TAIWAN;

EID: 38849097027     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029510     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Carton, J. A., G. Chepurin, X. Cao, and B. S. Giese (2000a), A simple ocean data assimilation analysis of the global upper ocean 1950-95. part I: Method, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 294-309.
2. Carton, J. A., G. Chepurin, and X. Cao (2000b), A simple ocean data assimilation analysis of the global upper ocean 1950-95. part II: Results, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 311-326.
3. Deser, C., M. A. Alexander, and M. Timlin (1996), Upper-ocean thermal variations in the North Pacific during 1970-1991, J. Clim., 9, 1840-1855.
4. Gu, D., and S. G. H. Philander (1997), Interdecadal climate fluctuations that depend on exchanges between the tropics and extratropics, Science, 275, 805-807.
5. Hu, H., Q. Liu, and W. Liu (2006), Interannual and decadal variation of the subduction rate in the subtropical mode water formation regions in the North Pacific (in Chinese), Acta Oceanol. Sin., 282, 22-28.
6. Huang, B., and Z. Liu (1999), Pacific subtropical-tropical thermocline water exchange in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction ocean model, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 11,065-11,076.
7. Huang, R. X., and Q. Wang (2001), Interior communication from the subtropical to the tropical oceans, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 3538-3550.
8. Johnson, G. C., and M. J. McPhaden (1999), Interior pycnocline flow from the subtropical to the equatorial Pacific Ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 3073-3098.
9. Kobashi, F., and H. Kawamura (2001), Variation of sea surface height at periods of 65-220 days in the subtropical gyre of the North Pacific, J. Geophys Res., 106, 26,817-26,831.
10. Ladd, C., and L. Thompson (2002), Decadal variability of North Pacific central mode water, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 2870-2881.
11. Liu, Q., H. Hu, H. Liu, and W. Liu (2006), The role of sea surface wind in "subduction" rate variation in North Pacific (in Chinese), Oceanol. Limnol. Sin., 37(2), 184-192.
12. Liu, Z. (1999a), Planetary wave modes in thermocline circulation: Non-Doppler-shift mode, advective mode and Green mode, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 125, 1315-1339.
13. Liu, Z. (1999b), Forced planetary wave response,in a thermocline gyre, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 1036-1055.
14. Masuzawa, J. (1969), Subtropical Mode Water, Deep Sea Res., 16, 463-472.
15. Qiu, B., and T. Durland (2002), Interaction between an island and the ventilated thermocline: Implications for the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 3408-3426.
16. Schneider, N., A. J. Miller, M. A. Alexander, and C. Deser (1999), Subduction of decadal north Pacific temperature anomalies: Observations and dynamics, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29, 1056-1070.
17. Suga, T., Y. Taker, and K. Hanawa (1997), Thermostad distribution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre: The central mode water and the subtropical mode water, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 27, 140-152.
18. Wang, Q., and R. Huang (2005), Decadal variability of pycnocline flows from the subtropical to the equatorial Pacific, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35, 1861-1875.
19. Xie, S.-P., T. Kunitani, A. Kubokawa, M. Nonaka, and S. Hosoda (2000), Interdecadal thermocline variability in the North Pacific for 1958-97: A GCM simulation, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 2798-2813.
20. Zhou, H., P. Guo, J. Xu, and Q. Liu (2007), The characteristics of the eddies east of Taiwan Island and the Kuroshio in East China Sea, Period. J. Ocean Univ. China, 37(2), 181-190.