Can Pacific Ocean Thermocline Depth Anomalies Be Simulated by a Simple Linear Vorticity Model?
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Can Complex Cellular Processes be Governed by Simple Linear Rules?
Complex living systems have shown remarkably well-orchestrated, self-organized, robust, and stable behavior under a wide range of perturbations. However, despite the recent generation of high-throughput experimental datasets, basic cellular processes such as division, differentiation, and apoptosis still remain elusive. One of the key reasons is the lack of understanding of the governing princi...
متن کاملPacific thermocline bridge revisited
The coupling on decadal time scales of the midlatitude and tropical Pacific via an oceanic 'bridge' in the thermocline is investigated using ocean general circulation model hindcasts and a coupled ocean atmosphere model. Results indicate that in the tropics decadal anomalies of isopycnal depth are forced by Ekman pumping and are largely independent of the arrival of subducted anomalies in the t...
متن کاملOn the Impact of Local Feedbacks in the Central Pacific on the ENSO Cycle
While sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the eastern equatorial Pacific are dominated by the thermocline feedback, in the central equatorial Pacific local wind effects, such as zonal advection, are important as well. El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) simulations with a linear model improve markedly if these effects are included as a local wind stress feedback on SST. An atmosphere mod...
متن کاملSaturation anomalies of alkyl nitrates in the tropical Pacific Ocean
[1] This paper reports the first measurements of the saturation state of low molecular weight alkyl nitrates (methyl, ethyl, isopropyl, and n-propyl nitrate) in the tropical Pacific Ocean. These compounds were supersaturated with saturation anomalies as high as 2000%. Air/sea flux estimates based on these measurements suggest that surface ocean emissions are sufficient to account for observed l...
متن کاملExtratropical Air-Sea Interaction, Sea Surface Temperature Variability, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
We examine processes that influence North Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies including surface heat fluxes, upper ocean mixing, thermocline variability, ocean currents, and tropical-extratropical interactions via the atmosphere and ocean. The ocean integrates rapidly varying atmospheric heat flux and wind forcing, and thus a stochastic model of the climate system, where white noise...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physical Oceanography
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0022-3670,1520-0485
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<1786:cpotda>2.0.co;2