The vertical heat transport of internal solitary waves over the continental slope in the northern South China Sea

LIANG Changrong; SHANG Xiaodong; CHEN Guiying

doi:10.1007/s13131-019-1397-3

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LIANG Changrong, SHANG Xiaodong, CHEN Guiying. The vertical heat transport of internal solitary waves over the continental slope in the northern South China Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(3): 36-44. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1397-3

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LIANG Changrong, SHANG Xiaodong, CHEN Guiying. The vertical heat transport of internal solitary waves over the continental slope in the northern South China Sea[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2019, 38(3): 36-44. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1397-3

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The vertical heat transport of internal solitary waves over the continental slope in the northern South China Sea

doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1397-3

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State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China

Received Date: 2017-10-20

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An integrated analysis of internal solitary wave (ISW) observations obtained from two moorings over the continental slope in the northern South China Sea (SCS) leads to an assessment of the vertical heat transport of the ISWs. The clusters of ISW packets are phase-locked to the fortnightly cycle of the semidiurnal tide. The ISWs appear during large semidiurnal tides, and there is a period of 5-6 d when no ISWs are observed. The effect of the ISWs on the continental slope heat budget is observed. The ISWs can modify a local temperature field in which the temperature in the upper layer can be changed by O (10⁰)℃ after the ISWs passed the mooring. Both ISW-induced diffusion and ISW-induced advection contribute to the temperature variation. The estimates imply an average vertical heat flux of 0.01 to 0.1 MW/m² in the ISWs in the upper 500 m of the water column. The vertical heat transport ranges from 0.56 to 2.83 GJ/m² with a mean value of 1.63 GJ/m². The observations suggest that the vertical heat transport is proportional to the maximum vertical displacement.
- internal solitary wave,
- vertical heat transport,
- temperature variation,
- diffusion,
- advection,
- vertical heat flux

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