Upwelling off the west coast of Hainan Island: sensitivity to wave-mixing

Bai Peng; Yang Jingling; Zhang Shuwen; Xie Lingling; Wu Junshan

doi:10.1007/s13131-019-1494-3

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Bai Peng, Yang Jingling, Zhang Shuwen, Xie Lingling, Wu Junshan. Upwelling off the west coast of Hainan Island: sensitivity to wave-mixing[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(11): 11-19. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1494-3

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Bai Peng, Yang Jingling, Zhang Shuwen, Xie Lingling, Wu Junshan. Upwelling off the west coast of Hainan Island: sensitivity to wave-mixing[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(11): 11-19. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1494-3

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Upwelling off the west coast of Hainan Island: sensitivity to wave-mixing

doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1494-3

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Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
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East China Sea Bureau of Ministry of Natural Resources, Shanghai 200137, China

Received Date: 2018-04-26

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The coupled ocean–atmosphere–wave–sediment transport (COAWST) modeling system is employed to investigate the role of wave-mixing playing in the upwelling off the west coast of Hainan Island (WHU). Waves, tides and sea surface temperature (SST) are reproduced reasonably well by the model when validated by observations. Model results suggest the WHU is tidally driven. Further investigations indicate that inclusion of wave-mixing promotes the intensity of the WHU, making the simulated SST become more consistent with remote-sensed ones. Dynamically, wave-mixing facilitates the “outcrop” of more upwelled cold water, triggering stronger WHU and leading to a three-dimensional dynamical adjustment. From the perspective of time, wave-mixing contributes to establishing an earlier tidal mixing front strong enough to generate WHU and that is, WHU may occur earlier when taking wave-mixing into consideration.
- upwelling|wave-mixing|tidal mixing front|COAWST|Hainan Island,

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