Improving the estimate of wind energy input into the Ekman layer within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

ZHANG Yuming WU Kejian ZHANG Xiaoshuang BI Fan SONG Zhaoyang LIU Shouhua

ZHANGYuming, WUKejian, ZHANGXiaoshuang, BIFan, SONGZhaoyang, LIUShouhua. Improving the estimate of wind energy input into the Ekman layer within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current[J]. 海洋学报英文版, 2013, 32(3): 19-27. doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0284-6
引用本文: ZHANGYuming, WUKejian, ZHANGXiaoshuang, BIFan, SONGZhaoyang, LIUShouhua. Improving the estimate of wind energy input into the Ekman layer within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current[J]. 海洋学报英文版, 2013, 32(3): 19-27. doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0284-6
ZHANG Yuming, WU Kejian, ZHANG Xiaoshuang, BI Fan, SONG Zhaoyang, LIU Shouhua. Improving the estimate of wind energy input into the Ekman layer within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2013, 32(3): 19-27. doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0284-6
Citation: ZHANG Yuming, WU Kejian, ZHANG Xiaoshuang, BI Fan, SONG Zhaoyang, LIU Shouhua. Improving the estimate of wind energy input into the Ekman layer within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2013, 32(3): 19-27. doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0284-6

Improving the estimate of wind energy input into the Ekman layer within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

doi: 10.1007/s13131-013-0284-6
基金项目: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 40930844 and 40976005.

Improving the estimate of wind energy input into the Ekman layer within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

  • 摘要: Based on the data and method offered by Liu et al. (2009), the direct wind and Stokes drift-induced energy inputs into the Ekman layer within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) area are reestimated since the results of the former have been proved to be underestimated. And the result shows that the total rate of energy input into the Ekman-Stokes layer within the ACC area is 852.41 GW, including 649.75 GW of direct wind energy input (76%) and 202.66 GW of Stoke drift-induced energy input (24%). Total increased energy input, due to wave-induced Coriolis-Stokes forcing added to the classical Ekman model, is 52.05 GW, accounting for 6.5% of the wind energy input into the classical Ekman layer. The long-term variability of direct wind and Stokes drift-induced energy inputs into the Ekman layer within the ACC is also investigated, and the result shows that the Stokes drift hinders the decadal increasing trend of direct wind energy input. Meanwhile, there is a period of 4-5 a in the energy spectrums, as same as the Antarctic circumpolar wave.
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  • 收稿日期:  2011-06-27
  • 修回日期:  2012-05-08

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