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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
卷 118, 期 10, 页码 5109-5116出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20367
关键词
maximum sea surface salinity; SPCZ; mixed layer salinity budget; ENSO; tropical South Pacific Ocean
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- CNES/TOSCA SMOS-Ocean project
- ESA SMOS+SOS project
This study investigates causes for the formation and variability of the Sea Surface Salinity maximum (SSS>36) centered near 18 degrees S-124 degrees W in the South Pacific Ocean over the 1990-2011 period at the seasonal time scale and above. We use two monthly gridded products of SSS based on in situ measurements, high-resolution along-track Voluntary Observing Ships thermo-salinograph data, new SMOS satellite data, and a validated ocean general circulation model with no direct SSS relaxation. All products reveal a seasonal cycle of the location of the 36-isohaline barycenter of about 400 km in longitude in response to changes in the South Pacific Convergence Zone location and Easterly winds intensity. They also show a low frequency westward shift of the barycenter of 1400 km from the mid 1990s to the early 2010s that could not be linked to the El Nino Southern Oscillation phenomena. In the model, the processes maintaining the 22 year equilibrium of the high salinity in the mixed layer are the surface forcing (approximate to+0.73 pss/yr), the horizontal salinity advection (approximate to-0.37 pss/yr), and processes occurring at the mixed layer base (approximate to-0.35 pss/yr).
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