Interbasin exchanges and their roles in global ocean circulation:A study based on 1 400 years’ spin up of MOM4p1

ZHU Yaohua WEI Zexun FANG Guohong WANG Yonggang GUAN Yuping

ZHUYaohua, WEIZexun, FANGGuohong, WANGYonggang, GUANYuping. Interbasin exchanges and their roles in global ocean circulation:A study based on 1 400 years’ spin up of MOM4p1[J]. 海洋学报英文版, 2014, 33(1): 11-23. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0429-2
引用本文: ZHUYaohua, WEIZexun, FANGGuohong, WANGYonggang, GUANYuping. Interbasin exchanges and their roles in global ocean circulation:A study based on 1 400 years’ spin up of MOM4p1[J]. 海洋学报英文版, 2014, 33(1): 11-23. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0429-2
ZHU Yaohua, WEI Zexun, FANG Guohong, WANG Yonggang, GUAN Yuping. Interbasin exchanges and their roles in global ocean circulation:A study based on 1 400 years’ spin up of MOM4p1[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(1): 11-23. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0429-2
Citation: ZHU Yaohua, WEI Zexun, FANG Guohong, WANG Yonggang, GUAN Yuping. Interbasin exchanges and their roles in global ocean circulation:A study based on 1 400 years’ spin up of MOM4p1[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2014, 33(1): 11-23. doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0429-2

Interbasin exchanges and their roles in global ocean circulation:A study based on 1 400 years’ spin up of MOM4p1

doi: 10.1007/s13131-014-0429-2
基金项目: The National Basic Research Program Grant of China under contact No. 2011CB403502; the International Cooperation Program Grant of China under contact No. 2010DFB23580; the International Cooperation Program of State Oceanic Administration of China under contract No. QY0213022; project supported by the First Institute of Oceanography, the State Oceanic Administration of China under contract No. 2010G06; author Guan Yuping is supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contact Nos 40976011 and 91228202.

Interbasin exchanges and their roles in global ocean circulation:A study based on 1 400 years’ spin up of MOM4p1

  • 摘要: A global prognostic model based on MOM4p1, which is a primitive equation non Boussinesq numerical model, has been integrated with 1 400 years from the state of rest based on the realistic topography to study the long-term pattern of combined wind-driven and thermodynamically-driven general circulation. The model is driven by monthly climatological mean forces and includes 192×189 horizontal grids and 31 pressure-based vertical levels. The main objective is to investigate themass and heat transports at interbasin passages and their compensations and roles in the global ocean circulation under equilibriumstate of long-termspin up. The kinetic energy analysis divides the spin up process into three stages: the quasi-stable state ofwind driven current, the growing phase of thermodynamical circulation and the equilibriumstate of thermohaline circulation. It is essential to spin up over a thousand years in order to reach the thermohaline equilibrium state from a state of rest. The Arctic Through flow from the Bering Strait to the Greenland Sea and the Indonesian Through flow (ITF) are captured and examined with their compensations and existing data. Analysis reveals that the slope structures of sea surface height are the dynamical driving mechanism of the Pacific-Arctic-Atlantic through flow and ITF. The analysis denotes, in spite of O (1.4×106 m3/s) of the southward volume transport in the northern Atlantic, that there is stillO (1 PW) of heat transported northward since the northward currents in the upper layer carrymuch higher temperature water than the southward flowing northern Atlantic deep water (NADW).Meridional volume and heat transports are focused on the contributions to NAD Wrenewals and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). Quantitative descriptions of the interbasin exchanges are explained bymeridional compensations and supported by previous observations and numericalmodeling results. Analysis indicates that the volume and heat exchanges on the interbasin passages proposed in this article manifest their hub roles in the Great Ocean Conveyor System.
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