The watermass variability and southward shift of the Southern Hemispheremid-depth supergyre

DUAN Yongliang; HOU Yijun; LIU Hongwei; LIU Yahao

doi:DOI: 10.1007/s13131-013-0380-7

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DUAN Yongliang, HOU Yijun, LIU Hongwei, LIU Yahao. The watermass variability and southward shift of the Southern Hemispheremid-depth supergyre[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2013, 32(11): 74-81. doi: DOI: 10.1007/s13131-013-0380-7

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DUAN Yongliang, HOU Yijun, LIU Hongwei, LIU Yahao. The watermass variability and southward shift of the Southern Hemispheremid-depth supergyre[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2013, 32(11): 74-81. doi: DOI: 10.1007/s13131-013-0380-7

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The watermass variability and southward shift of the Southern Hemispheremid-depth supergyre

doi: DOI: 10.1007/s13131-013-0380-7

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Center for Ocean and Climate Research, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao 266061, China;Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China

Received Date: 2011-11-30
Rev Recd Date: 2012-12-17

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The Southern Hemisphere subtropical supergyre at intermediate depths connects all three ocean basins and plays a significant role in responding and conveying the climate-change-related variations in the global ocean. On the basis of the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) ocean reanalysis, the thermohaline variability and southward shift of themid-depth supergyre are demonstrated. The steric height of the subsurface relative to 1 500 m (400-1 500 m) from the SODA depicts exactly the flow patterns and variability of the oceanic supergyre. During 1958-2007 the water masses in the gyre interiors become cooler/fresher, with the significant exceptions of the Agulhas Current system and Agulhas leakage. The results also exhibit a pronounced strengthening of the inter-basin connection of the supergyre, and the strongest southward shift, by about 2.5° over the whole period, occurs in the central-south Pacific, which is associated with the changes in the basin-scale wind forcing.
- Southern Hemisphere supergyre,
- thermohaline tendency,
- steric height,
- South Pacific

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