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Physical Oceanography, Marine Meteorology and Marine Physics
Progress in research of submesoscale processes in the South China Sea
Quanan Zheng, Lingling Xie, Xuejun Xiong, Xiaomin Hu, Liang Chen
2020, 39(1): 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1521-4
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This paper overviews research progress in observation, theoretical analysis and numerical modeling of submesoscale dynamic processes in the South China Sea (SCS) particularly during recent five years. The submesoscale processes are defined according ...
Principal-component estimates of the Kuroshio Current axis and path based on the mathematical verification between satellite altimeter and drifting buoy data
Zhanpeng Zhuang, Zhenli Hui, Guangbing Yang, Xinhua Zhao, Yeli Yuan
2020, 39(1): 14-24. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1523-2
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We used satellite altimetry data to investigate the Kuroshio Current because of the higher resolution and wider range of observations. In previous studies, satellite absolute geostrophic velocities were used to study the spatio-temporal variability o...
Effects of wave-current interaction on the waves, cold-water mass and transport of diluted water in the Beibu Gulf
Jingling Yang, Shaocai Jiang, Junshan Wu, Lingling Xie, Shuwen Zhang, Peng Bai
2020, 39(1): 25-40. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1529-9
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Wave-current interaction and its effects on the hydrodynamic environment in the Beibu Gulf (BG) have been investigated via employing the Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere–Wave–Sediment Transport (COAWST) modeling system. The model could simulate reasonable hy...
Identification and census statistics of multicore eddies based on sea surface height data in global oceans
Wei Cui, Wei Wang, Jie Zhang, Jungang Yang
2020, 39(1): 41-51. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1519-y
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This study produced a statistical analysis of multicore eddy structures based on 23 years' altimetry data in global oceans. Multicore structures were identified using a threshold-free closed-contour algorithm of sea surface height, which was improved...
The impact of oceanic processes on the transient climate response: a tidal forcing experiment
Yi Yu, Hailong Liu, Pengfei Lin, Jian Lan
2020, 39(1): 52-62. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1466-0
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In this study, the impact of oceanic processes on the sensitivity of transient climate change is investigated using two sets of coupled experiments with and without tidal forcing, which are termed Exp_Tide and Exp_Control, respectively. After introdu...
Seasonal linkage of the Southern Hemisphere extratropical climate variability to two types of ENSO
Zhongpeng Wang, Zhaoru Zhang, Meng Zhou, Hailong Liu, Yisen Zhong, Xiaoqiao Wang
2020, 39(1): 63-73. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1528-x
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This study uses the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) to investigate the responses of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) extratropical climate to two types of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)—the eastern Pacific (EP) type and the central Pacific...
Hazard analysis of tsunami disaster on the Maritime Silk Road
Jingming Hou, Xiaojuan Li, Peitao Wang, Juncheng Wang, Zhiyuan Ren
2020, 39(1): 74-82. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1526-z
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The Maritime Silk Road is not only a passageway for business and trade, but also the road of friendship between eastern and western civilizations. The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 caused major damage to several coastal countries. Tsunami occurrence r...
Evaluation on monthly sea surface wind speed of four reanalysis data sets over the China seas after 1988
Guosong Wang, Xidong Wang, Hui Wang, Min Hou, Yan Li, Wenjing Fan, Yulong Liu
2020, 39(1): 83-90. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1525-0
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This study investigates the long-term changes of monthly sea surface wind speeds over the China seas from 1988 to 2015. The 10-meter wind speeds products from four major global reanalysis datasets with high resolution are used: Cross-Calibrated Multi...
Validation of MODIS ocean-colour products in the coastal waters of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea
Lingling Jiang, Xiangyu Guo, Lin Wang, Shubha Sathyendranath, Hayley Evers-King, Yanlong Chen, Bingnan Li
2020, 39(1): 91-101. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1522-3
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An extensive study collected in situ data along the Yellow Sea (YS) and East China Sea (ECS) to assess the radiometric properties and the concentration of the water constituents derived from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Thir...
Wintertime Guangdong coastal currents successfully captured by cheap GPS drifters
Hongyang Lin, Zhenyu Sun, Zhaozhang Chen, Jia Zhu, Jianyu Hu
2020, 39(1): 166-170. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1425-3
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This study introduces a type of self-developed, GPS-based, simple and cheap Surface Current Experiment (SUCE) drifters designated for observing surface coastal currents. By examining trajectories of six drifters deployed in the Daya Bay and the drift...
Marine Chemistry
Assessing temporal variation of coloured dissolved organic matter in the coastal waters of South Eastern Arabian Sea
P Minu, V P Souda, S K Baliarsingh, R M Dwivedi, Y Ali, P M Ashraf
2020, 39(1): 102-109. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1534-z
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Coloured dissolved organic matter (CDOM) plays a major role in marine photochemical and biological processes and its optical properties are known to affect the underwater light penetration. This paper highlights in situ optical estimation and satelli...
Marine Geology
El Niño/Southern Oscillation during the 4.2 ka event recorded by growth rates of corals from the North South China Sea
Shaohua Dang, Kefu Yu, Shichen Tao, Tao Han, Huiling Zhang, Wei Jiang
2020, 39(1): 110-117. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1520-5
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The 4.2 ka event that occurred during the period from 4 500–3 900 a BP was characterized by cold and dry climates and resulted in the collapse of civilizations around the world. The cause of this climatic event, however, has been under debate. We col...
Large along-axis variations in magma supply and tectonism of the Southeast Indian Ridge near the Australian-Antarctic Discordance
Shoujin Liu, Jian Lin, Zhiyuan Zhou, Fan Zhang
2020, 39(1): 118-129. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1518-z
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We analyzed seafloor morphology and geophysical anomalies of the Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR) to reveal the remarkable changes in magma supply along this intermediate fast-spreading ridge. We found systematic differences of the Australian-Antarctic ...
Ocean Engineering
Numerical investigation on tsunami wave mitigation on forest sloping beach
Mingliang Zhang, Yongpeng Ji, Yini Wang, Hongxing Zhang, Tianping Xu
2020, 39(1): 130-140. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1527-y
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An explicit one-dimensional model based on the shallow water equations (SWEs) was established in this work to simulate tsunami wave propagation on a vegetated beach. This model adopted the finite-volume method (FVM) for maintaining the mass balance o...
Marine Technology
A simple method of depressing numerical dissipation effects during wave simulation within the Euler model
Zhe Hu, Xiaoying Zhang, Weicheng Cui, Fang Wang, Xiaowen Li, Yan Li
2020, 39(1): 141-156. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1524-1
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Numerical wave tanks are widely-acknowledged tools in studying waves and wave-structure interactions. They can generate waves under realistic scales and offers more information on the fluid field. However, most numerical wave tanks suffer from issues...
Marine Information Science
Mediterranean Sea level trends from long-period tide gauge time series
Haddad Mahdi, Taibi Hebib
2020, 39(1): 157-165. doi: 10.1007/s13131-020-1532-1
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The main purpose of this study is to highlight, on the basis of statistical tests, the significant long-term changes of the Mediterranean Sea level, through the analysis of historical tide gauge records. In this framework, 14 tide gauge monthly seri...