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

doi:10.1007/s13131-019-1523-2

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Zhanpeng Zhuang, Zhenli Hui, Guangbing Yang, Xinhua Zhao, Yeli Yuan. Principal-component estimates of the Kuroshio Current axis and path based on the mathematical verification between satellite altimeter and drifting buoy data[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(1): 14-24. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1523-2

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Zhanpeng Zhuang, Zhenli Hui, Guangbing Yang, Xinhua Zhao, Yeli Yuan. Principal-component estimates of the Kuroshio Current axis and path based on the mathematical verification between satellite altimeter and drifting buoy data[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(1): 14-24. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1523-2

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Zhanpeng Zhuang, Zhenli Hui, Guangbing Yang, Xinhua Zhao, Yeli Yuan. Principal-component estimates of the Kuroshio Current axis and path based on the mathematical verification between satellite altimeter and drifting buoy data[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2020, 39(1): 14-24. doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1523-2

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Principal-component estimates of the Kuroshio Current axis and path based on the mathematical verification between satellite altimeter and drifting buoy data

doi: 10.1007/s13131-019-1523-2

Zhanpeng Zhuang^{1, 2
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Zhenli Hui^{1, 2},
Guangbing Yang^{1, 2},
Xinhua Zhao³,
Yeli Yuan^{1, 2}

1.
The First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266100, China
2.
Laboratory for Regional Oceanography and Numerical Modeling, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China
3.
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China

Funds: The National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under contract No. 2018YFF01014100; the National Programme on Global Change and Air-Sea Interaction under contract No. GASI-IPOVAI-01-05; the NSFC-Shandong Joint Fund for Marine Science Research Centers under contract No. U1606405.

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Corresponding author: Zhanpeng Zhuang (zhuangzp@fio.org.cn)
Received Date: 2018-12-12
Accepted Date: 2019-07-15

Available Online: 2020-04-21

Publish Date: 2020-01-20

Abstract

Abstract

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 of the sea surface velocity field along the current, and extraction methods were employed to detect the Kuroshio axes and paths. However, sea surface absolute geostrophic velocity estimated from absolute dynamic topography should be regarded as the geostrophic component of the actual surface velocity, which cannot represent a sea surface current accurately. In this study, mathematical verification between the climatic absolute geostrophic and bin-averaged drifting buoy velocity was established and then adopted to correct the satellite absolute geostrophic velocities. There were some differences in the characteristics between satellite geostrophic and drifting buoy velocities. As a result, the corrected satellite absolute geostrophic velocities were used to detect the Kuroshio axis and path based on a principal-component detection scheme. The results showed that the detection of the Kuroshio axes and paths from corrected absolute geostrophic velocities performed better than those from satellite absolute geostrophic velocities and surface current estimations. The corrected satellite absolute geostrophic velocity may therefore contribute to more precise day-to-day detection of the Kuroshio Current axis and path.
- Kuroshio axis detection,
- Kuroshio path detection,
- mathematical verification,
- satellite absolute geostrophic velocity,
- principal-component detection

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