The Arctic is one of the most significant changing areas on the Earth under the climate change scenario.More regions in the Arctic are becoming ice-free oceans in the melting season or through the whole year.Therefore...The Arctic is one of the most significant changing areas on the Earth under the climate change scenario.More regions in the Arctic are becoming ice-free oceans in the melting season or through the whole year.Therefore,ocean wind and wave,as the two most important parameters in the air-sea interface,are drawing signifi-cant attention to the Arctic Ocean.Scatterometer and radar alti-meter are the two traditional remote sensing instruments for ocean wind and wave observations,while the former is limited by coarse spatial resolution and the latter has small spatial coverage.Wind and wave data in high spatial resolution and wide coverage by synthetic aperture radar(SAR)are currently lacking in the Arctic Ocean.We developed an ocean wind and wave dataset by Sentinel-1 SAR in the pan-Arctic Ocean(above 60°N),covering January 2017 to May 2021.By comparing with sea surface wind speed data of scatterometer,the SAR-retrieved wind data achieve an accuracy of 1.23 m/s,in terms of root mean square error(RMSE).Compared with significant wave height data of radar altimeter,the SAR retrievals have an RMSE of 0.66 m.The data records are in the standard NetCDF-4 format.The dataset is publicly available at:http://www.dx.doi.org/10.11922/sciencedb.00834.展开更多
According to ship observation data over the NW Pacific Ocean during 1950 - 1995. taking 5°×5° grid, the characteristics and variation rule of wind, wave and swell are analyzed. This area is typical mons...According to ship observation data over the NW Pacific Ocean during 1950 - 1995. taking 5°×5° grid, the characteristics and variation rule of wind, wave and swell are analyzed. This area is typical monsoon area. In the period of monsoon, the directions of wind, sea wave and swell are roughly consistent. Sea wave of northeasterly is always prevailing in equatorial zone. The monsoon in winter is stronger than in summer, correspondingly, average wave height is higher, and the frequencies of high sea and heavy swell are also bigger. Both of North Indian Ocean and adjacent sea area is also monsoon area, but characteristic is opposite. This paper provides specific data of wind field and wave field and variaton for ship navigation, operation and scientific experiment in the NW Pacific Ocean.展开更多
To investigate the annual and interaunual variability of ocean surface wind over the South China Sea （SCS）, the vector empirical orthogonal function （VEOF） method and the Hilbert-Huang transform （HHT） method wer...To investigate the annual and interaunual variability of ocean surface wind over the South China Sea （SCS）, the vector empirical orthogonal function （VEOF） method and the Hilbert-Huang transform （HHT） method were employed to analyze a set of combined satellite scatterometer wind data during the period from December 1992 to October 2009. The merged wind data were generated from European Remote Sensing Satellite （ERS）-1/2 Scatterometer, NASA Scatterometer （NSCAT） and NASA＇s Quick Scatterometer （QuikSCAT） wind products. The first VEOF mode corresponds to a winter-summer mode which accounts for 87.3% of the total variance and represents the East Asian monsoon features. The second mode of VEOF corresponds to a spring-autumn oscil- lation which accounts for 8.3% of the total variance. To analyze the interannual variability, the annual signal was removed from the wind data set and the VEOFs of the residuals were calculated. The temporal mode of the ftrst intcrannual VEOF is correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index （SOI） with a four-month lag. The second temporal interannual VEOF mode is correlated with the SOI with no time lag. The time series of the two interannual VEOFs were decomposed using the HI-IT method and the results also show a correlation between the interannual variability and El Nino-Southern Oscillation （ENSO） events.展开更多
With available high-resolution ocean surface wind vectors retrieved from the U.S.Naval Research Laboratory's WindSat on Coriolis,the impact of these data on genesis and forecasting of tropical storm Henri is exami...With available high-resolution ocean surface wind vectors retrieved from the U.S.Naval Research Laboratory's WindSat on Coriolis,the impact of these data on genesis and forecasting of tropical storm Henri is examined using the non-hydrostatic,fifth-generation mesoscale model(MM5) of Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research plus its newly released three-dimensional variational data assimilation(3DVAR) system.It is shown that the assimilation of the WindSat-retrieved ocean surface wind vectors in the 3DVAR system improves the model initialization fields by introducing a stronger vortex in the lower troposphere.As a result,the model reproduces the storm formation and track reasonably close to the observations.Compared to the experiment without the WindSat surface winds,the WindSat assimilation reduced an error between the model simulated track and observations of more than 80 km and also improved the storm intensity by nearly 2 hPa.It suggests that these data could provide early detection and prediction of tropical storms or hurricanes.展开更多
Knowing the pattern of surface winds on the seas and oceans and how it changes over time is of great importance. In this research, the monthly surface wind fields on the Indian Ocean have been studied and analyzed for...Knowing the pattern of surface winds on the seas and oceans and how it changes over time is of great importance. In this research, the monthly surface wind fields on the Indian Ocean have been studied and analyzed for a 35-year period (1981-2015), using NCEP/NCAR data reanalysis. The results show that transition from cold to warm pattern happens in May and that the summer monsoon pattern begins in June and continues until August. The wind speed pattern tends to the winter monsoon from November on. The maximum average wind speed in June is 13 m/s and its minimum is 2 m/s in October. Direction of prevailing winds is the southwest in the summer. The highest wind speed happens in the latitude of 10 - 15 degrees. Analysis of the wind distribution shows that the wind speed of 2 - 5 m/s happens in about 60% of the cases. There is probability of blowing 0.5 - 4 m/s wind for all months;but this probability is higher in the autumn (October and November) than that in the summer (July and August). Probability of the monthly over 5 m/s winds shows a definitely opposite distribution;that is, wind speed in July and August is higher than that in October. A long-term survey on the speed of surface water wind and sea surface temperature shows an opposite changing trend in wind speed and sea surface temperature during a 55-year statistical period. Wind speed reduced, while the sea surface temperature was increasing. The wind speed gradient in the upper levels of atmosphere graph has been increasing;this phenomenon confirms the effects of global warming and ocean warming on the monsoon system patterns in the Indian Ocean. Keywords展开更多
An ocean general circulation model （OGCM） is used to demonstrate remote effects of tropical cyclone wind （TCW） forcing in the tropical Pacific. The signature of TCW forcing is explicitly extracted using a locally ...An ocean general circulation model （OGCM） is used to demonstrate remote effects of tropical cyclone wind （TCW） forcing in the tropical Pacific. The signature of TCW forcing is explicitly extracted using a locally weighted quadratic least=squares regression （called as LOESS） method from six-hour satellite surface wind data; the extracted TCW component can then be additionally taken into account or not in ocean modeling, allowing isolation of its effects on the ocean in a clean and clear way. In this paper, seasonally varying TCW fields in year 2008 are extracted from satellite data which are prescribed as a repeated annual cycle over the western Pacific regions off the equator （poleward of 10°N/S）; two long-term OGCM experiments are performed and compared, one with the TCW forcing part included additionally and the other not. Large, persistent thermal perturbations （cooling in the mixed layer （ML） and warming in the thermocline） are induced locally in the western tropical Pacific, which are seen to spread with the mean ocean circulation pathways around the tropical basin. In particular, a remote ocean response emerges in the eastern equatorial Pacific to the prescribed off-equatorial TCW forcing, characterized by a cooling in the mixed layer and a warming in the thermocline. Heat budget analyses indicate that the vertical mixing is a dominant process responsible for the SST cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Further studies are clearly needed to demonstrate the significance of these results in a coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling context.展开更多
A lattice Boltzmann (LB) model with overall second-order accuracy is applied to the 1.5-layer shallow water equation for a wind-driven double-gyre ocean circulation. By introducing the second-order integral approximat...A lattice Boltzmann (LB) model with overall second-order accuracy is applied to the 1.5-layer shallow water equation for a wind-driven double-gyre ocean circulation. By introducing the second-order integral approximation for the collision operator, the model becomes fully explicit. In this case, any iterative technique is not needed. The Coriolis force and other external forces are included in the model with second-order accuracy, which is consistent with the discretized accuracy of the LB equation. The numerical results show correct physics of the ocean circulation driven by the double-gyre wind stress with different Reynolds numbers and different spatial resolutions. An intrinsic low-frequency variability of the shallow water model is also found. The wind-driven ocean circulation exhibits subannual and interannual oscillations, which are comparable to those of models in which the conventional numerical methods are used.展开更多
The ocean surface wind(OSW)data retrieved from microwave scatterometers have high spatial accuracy and represent the only wind data assimilated by global numerical models on the ocean surface,thus playing an important...The ocean surface wind(OSW)data retrieved from microwave scatterometers have high spatial accuracy and represent the only wind data assimilated by global numerical models on the ocean surface,thus playing an important role in improving the forecast skills of global medium-range weather prediction models.To improve the forecast skills of the Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction System Global Forecast System(GRAPES_GFS),the HY-2B OSW data is assimilated into the GRAPES_GFS four-dimensional variational assimilation(4DVAR)system.Then,the impacts of the HY-2B OSW data assimilation on the analyses and forecasts of GRAPES_GFS are analyzed based on one-month assimilation cycle experiments.The results show that after assimilating the HY-2B OSW data,the analysis errors of the wind fields in the lower-middle troposphere(1000-600 hPa)of the tropics and the southern hemisphere(SH)are significantly reduced by an average rate of about 5%.The impacts of the HY-2B OSW data assimilation on the analysis fields of wind,geopotential height,and temperature are not solely limited to the boundary layer but also extend throughout the entire troposphere after about two days of cycling assimilation.Furthermore,assimilating the HY-2B OSW data can significantly improve the forecast skill of wind,geopotential height,and temperature in the troposphere of the tropics and SH.展开更多
Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar(SAR)can provide unique capabilities to measure ocean surface winds under tropical cyclones(TCs),on synoptic scales,and at a very high spatial resolution.In this paper,we first discu...Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar(SAR)can provide unique capabilities to measure ocean surface winds under tropical cyclones(TCs),on synoptic scales,and at a very high spatial resolution.In this paper,we first discuss the accuracy and reliability of SAR-retrieved TC marine winds.The results show that wind retrievals from SAR images are in good agreement with Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer(SFMR)measurements,with root-mean-square error(RMSE)and correlation coefficient(CC)of 3.52 m s^(−1) and 0.91,respectively.Based on the marine winds retrieved from SAR images,a relatively simple method is applied to extract the storm intensity(maximum wind speed)and wind radii(R34,R50,and R64)from 234 cross-polarized SAR images,in the Northwest Pacific Ocean from 2015 to 2023.The SAR-retrieved TC wind radii and intensities are compared with the best-track reports,with RMSEs for R34,R50,and R64 being 48.32,41.88,and 38.51 km,and CCs being 0.87,0.83,and 0.65,respectively.In terms of TC intensity,the RMSE and bias between SAR estimates and best-track data are 7.32 and 0.38 m s^(−1),respectively.For TC Surigae(2023),we found that employing a combination of multiplatform SARs,acquired within a short time interval,has the potential to simultaneously measure the intensity and wind structure parameters.In addition,for a storm with a long life cycle,the multitemporal synergistic SARs can be used to investigate fine-scale features of the TC ocean winds,as well as the evolution of TC surface wind intensities and wind structures.展开更多
The characteristics of the response of equatorial Pacific upper ocean current to westerly wind bursts(WWB)were analyzed in the frequency domain by using wind and ADCP data collected by the Shiyan3 during TOGA-COARE IO...The characteristics of the response of equatorial Pacific upper ocean current to westerly wind bursts(WWB)were analyzed in the frequency domain by using wind and ADCP data collected by the Shiyan3 during TOGA-COARE IOP,1992-1993.The preliminary results showed that the response consistedof an eastward surface jet at shallower than 60m depth,a westward counter current centering near100m and a shear layer between them,with the variations of all three being nonlinear and nearlysynchronous.The oceanic responses in the frequency domain were characterized by occurrences of a remotely forced mixed Rossby-gravity wave with period of 8-10 days in the surface jet andcountercurrent at shallower than 110 m depth,and two locally forced waves with periods of 24 daysand 4-5 days limited in shallower than 70m depth.These fluctuations of the responses depended much more on zonal wind than meridional wind.The results also revealed that the oceanic response toWWB resulted from momentum transport and energy propagation展开更多
In their daily practices, meteorologists make extensive use of the geostrophic wind properties to explain many weather phenomena such as the meaning and direction of the horizontal winds that take place around the low...In their daily practices, meteorologists make extensive use of the geostrophic wind properties to explain many weather phenomena such as the meaning and direction of the horizontal winds that take place around the low atmospheric pressures. The biggest challenge that faces the public who is interested in information disseminated by meteorologists is to know exactly what means the geostrophic wind. Besides the literal definitions scattered in very little scientific work, there is unfortunately no book which gives importance to the algebraic definition of the geostrophic wind. Our work shows that to better understand the behavior of natural phenomena, it is essential to combine the theories with based observations. Obviously, observations cannot be relevant without a theory that guides the observers. Conversely, no theory can be validated without experimental verification. Synoptic observations show that in the “free atmosphere!” the wind vectors are very nearly parallel to isobars, and the flow is perpendicular to the horizontal pressure gradient force, at least at any given instant. This kind of information recommends great caution when making geostrophic approximations. Our work also shows that for tornadoes, there is no need to move away from the surface of the oceans to observe the geostrophic balance. Undoubtedly, identification and interpretation of earth’s atmosphere dynamics’ and thermodynamics’ similarities between rogue waves and oceans’ surface geostrophic wind will be an easy exercise to researchers who will give importance to result provided by this paper.展开更多
In order to fulfill the no-slip condition at the western and eastern boundaries of the ocean basin, introduced ＂effective wind stress＂, which has much larger spatial variations towards the boundaries than in the oce...In order to fulfill the no-slip condition at the western and eastern boundaries of the ocean basin, introduced ＂effective wind stress＂, which has much larger spatial variations towards the boundaries than in the ocean interior. The effective wind stress can thus be decomposed into spatially slow-varying and fast varying components. Careful scale analysis on the classical Munk winddriven ocean circulation theory, which consists of the interior Sverdrup flow and the western boundary current but of no eastern boundary current, shows that the wind stress curl appearing in the Sverdrup equation must have negligible spatial variations. In the present model the spatially slow-varying component of the wind stress appears in the Sverdrup equation, and the spatially fastvarying component becomes the forcing term of the boundary equations. As a result, in addition to the classical Munk solution the present model has an extra term at the western boundary which （Northern Hemisphere） increases the northward transport as well as the southward return transport, and has a term at the eastern boundary corresponding to the eastern boundary current.展开更多
A coupled lattice Boltzmann （LB） model with second-order accuracy is applied to the reduced-gravity, shallow water, 2.5-layer model for wind-driven double-gyre ocean circulation. By introducing the secondorder integ...A coupled lattice Boltzmann （LB） model with second-order accuracy is applied to the reduced-gravity, shallow water, 2.5-layer model for wind-driven double-gyre ocean circulation. By introducing the secondorder integral approximation for the collision operator, the model becomes fully explicit. The Coriolis force and other external forces are included in the model with second-order accuracy, which is consistent with the discretization accuracy of the LB equation. The feature of the multiple equilibria solutions is found in the numerical experiments under different Reynolds numbers based on this LB scheme. With the Reynolds number increasing from 3000 to 4000, the solution of this model is destabilized from the anti-symmetric double-gyre solution to the subtropic gyre solution and then to the subpolar gyre solution. The transitions between these equilibria states are also found in some parameter ranges. The time-dependent variability of the circulation based on this LB simulation is also discussed for varying viscosity regimes. The flow of this model exhibits oscillations with different timescales varying from subannual to interannual. The corresponding statistical oscillation modes are obtained by spectral analysis. By analyzing the spatiotemporal structures of these modes, it is found that the subannual oscillation with a 9-month period originates from the barotropic Rossby basin mode, and the interarmual oscillations with periods ranging from 1.5 years to 4.6 years originate from the recirculation gyre modes, which include the barotropic and the baroclinic recirculation gyre modes.展开更多
Under the background of energy crisis, the development of renewable energy will significantly alleviate the energy and environmental crisis. On the basis of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts（ECMW...Under the background of energy crisis, the development of renewable energy will significantly alleviate the energy and environmental crisis. On the basis of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts（ECMWF）interim reanalysis（ERA-interim） wind data, the annual and seasonal grade divisions of the global offshore wind energy are investigated. The results show that the annual mean offshore wind energy has great potential. The wind energy over the westerly oceans of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is graded as Class 7（the highest）, whereas that over most of the mid-low latitude oceans are higher than Class 4. The wind energy over the Arctic Ocean（Class 4） is more optimistic than the traditional evaluations. Seasonally, the westerly oceans of the Northern Hemisphere with a Class 7 wind energy are found to be largest in January, followed by April and October, and smallest in July. The area of the Class 7 wind energy over the westerly oceans of the Southern Hemisphere are found to be largest in July and slightly smaller in the other months. In July, the wind energy over the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal is graded as Class 7, which is obviously richer than that in other months. It is shown that in this data set in April and October, the majority of the northern Indian Ocean are regions of indigent wind energy resource.展开更多
The temporal and spatial variations in the wind and wave fields in the Pacific Ocean between 2002 and 2011 are analyzed using a third-generation wave model（WAVEWATCH III）. The model performance for a significant wav...The temporal and spatial variations in the wind and wave fields in the Pacific Ocean between 2002 and 2011 are analyzed using a third-generation wave model（WAVEWATCH III）. The model performance for a significant wave height is validated using in situ buoy data. The results show that the wave model effectively hindcasts the significant wave height in the Pacific Ocean, but the errors are relatively large in the mid- and low-latitude regions. The spatial distributions and temporal variations in a wind speed and the significant wave height in the Pacific Ocean are then considered after dividing the Pacific Ocean into five regions, which show meridional differences and seasonal cycles. Regional mean values are used to give yearly average time series for each separate zone. The high latitude region in the Southern Hemisphere had a stronger significant wave height trend in the model results than regions at other latitudes. The sources and sinks of wave energy are then investigated. Their regional mean values are used to quantify variations in surface waves. Finally, the spectral analyses of the daily mean wind speeds and the significant wave heights are obtained. The significant wave height and the wind speed spectra are found to be connected in some ways but also show certain differences.展开更多
Wind and waves are key components of the climate system as they drive air-sea interactions and influence weather systems and atmospheric circulation. In marine environments, understanding surface wind and wave fields ...Wind and waves are key components of the climate system as they drive air-sea interactions and influence weather systems and atmospheric circulation. In marine environments, understanding surface wind and wave fields and their evolution over time is important for conducting safe and efficient human activities, such as navigation and engineering. This study considers long-term trends in the sea surface wind speed(WS) and significant wave height(SWH) in the China Seas over the period 1988–2011 using the Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform(CCMP) ocean surface wind product and a 24-year hindcast wave dataset obtained from the WAVEWATCH-III(WW3) wave model forced with CCMP winds. The long-term trends in WS and SWH in the China Seas are analyzed over the past 24 years to provide a reference point from which to assess future climate change and offshore wind and wave energy resource development in the region. Results demonstrate that over the period 1988–2011 in the China Seas: 1) WS and SWH showed a significant increasing trend of 3.38 cm s^(-1)yr^(-1) and 1.52 cm yr^(-1), respectively; 2) there were notable regional differences in the long-term trends of WS and SWH; 3) areas with strong increasing trends were located mainly in the middle of the Tsushima Strait, the northern and southern areas of the Taiwan Strait, and in nearshore regions of the northern South China Sea; and 4) the long-term trend in WS was closely associated with El Ni?o and a significant increase in the occurrence of gale force winds in the region.展开更多
The North Equatorial Countercurrent(NECC) is an important zonal fl ow in the upper circulation of the tropical Pacifi c Ocean, which plays a vital role in the heat budget of the western Pacifi c warm pool. Using satel...The North Equatorial Countercurrent(NECC) is an important zonal fl ow in the upper circulation of the tropical Pacifi c Ocean, which plays a vital role in the heat budget of the western Pacifi c warm pool. Using satellite-derived data of ocean surface currents and sea surface heights(SSHs) from 1992 to 2011, the seasonal variation of the surface NECC in the western tropical Pacifi c Ocean was investigated. It was found that the intensity(INT) and axis position(Y_(CM)) of the surface NECC exhibit strikingly different seasonal fl uctuations in the upstream(128°–136°E) and downstream(145°–160°E) regions. Of the two regions, the seasonal cycle of the upstream NECC shows the greater interannual variability. Its INT and Y CM are greatly infl uenced by variations of the Mindanao Eddy, Mindanao Dome(MD), and equatorial Rossby waves to its south. Both INT and YC M also show semiannual signals induced by the combined effects of equatorial Rossby waves from the Central Pacifi c and local wind forcing in the western Pacifi c Ocean. In the downstream region, the variability of the NECC is affected by SSH anomalies in the MD and the central equatorial Pacifi c Ocean. Those in the MD region are especially important in modulating the Y CM of the downstream NECC. In addition to the SSH-related geostrophic fl ow, zonal Ekman fl ow driven by meridional wind stress also plays a role, having considerable impact on INT variability of the surface NECC. The contrasting features of the variability of the NECC in the upstream and downstream regions refl ect the high complexity of regional ocean dynamics.展开更多
海上浮式风机在海洋环境中会受到多种因素的影响,这些海洋环境会显著改变浮式风机的运动状态,进而使风机的发电性能发生改变。研究了不同风浪条件下海流对半潜型浮式风力发电机运动响应的影响,并比较分析了海流对风力机发电功率的影响...海上浮式风机在海洋环境中会受到多种因素的影响,这些海洋环境会显著改变浮式风机的运动状态,进而使风机的发电性能发生改变。研究了不同风浪条件下海流对半潜型浮式风力发电机运动响应的影响,并比较分析了海流对风力机发电功率的影响。选取半潜型浮式平台和5 MW风力机作为研究对象,采用OpenFAST、FAST to AQWA(F2A)和AQWA软件进行仿真。首先,在稳态风规则波、稳态风不规则波和湍流风不规则波3种环境条件下,分别计算了浮式平台的纵荡、垂荡、纵摇运动响应以及发电功率;然后,计算添加海流因素之后上述海况下的运动响应和发电功率。结果表明:海流主要对纵荡运动产生较大影响,最大差异达到13%,但对垂荡运动和纵摇运动的影响相对较小;在3种环境条件下的发电功率计算中,海流对风力发电机的平均发电功率和最大发电功率没有影响,工况间的差异小于1%,但在较复杂的工况下,发电功率的标准偏差差异较小,海流不会对发电功率的变化震荡程度产生影响。展开更多
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China[2018YFC1407100]the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars[42025605].
文摘The Arctic is one of the most significant changing areas on the Earth under the climate change scenario.More regions in the Arctic are becoming ice-free oceans in the melting season or through the whole year.Therefore,ocean wind and wave,as the two most important parameters in the air-sea interface,are drawing signifi-cant attention to the Arctic Ocean.Scatterometer and radar alti-meter are the two traditional remote sensing instruments for ocean wind and wave observations,while the former is limited by coarse spatial resolution and the latter has small spatial coverage.Wind and wave data in high spatial resolution and wide coverage by synthetic aperture radar(SAR)are currently lacking in the Arctic Ocean.We developed an ocean wind and wave dataset by Sentinel-1 SAR in the pan-Arctic Ocean(above 60°N),covering January 2017 to May 2021.By comparing with sea surface wind speed data of scatterometer,the SAR-retrieved wind data achieve an accuracy of 1.23 m/s,in terms of root mean square error(RMSE).Compared with significant wave height data of radar altimeter,the SAR retrievals have an RMSE of 0.66 m.The data records are in the standard NetCDF-4 format.The dataset is publicly available at:http://www.dx.doi.org/10.11922/sciencedb.00834.
文摘According to ship observation data over the NW Pacific Ocean during 1950 - 1995. taking 5°×5° grid, the characteristics and variation rule of wind, wave and swell are analyzed. This area is typical monsoon area. In the period of monsoon, the directions of wind, sea wave and swell are roughly consistent. Sea wave of northeasterly is always prevailing in equatorial zone. The monsoon in winter is stronger than in summer, correspondingly, average wave height is higher, and the frequencies of high sea and heavy swell are also bigger. Both of North Indian Ocean and adjacent sea area is also monsoon area, but characteristic is opposite. This paper provides specific data of wind field and wave field and variaton for ship navigation, operation and scientific experiment in the NW Pacific Ocean.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China through G41006108the Open Research Fund of the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environment & Disaster Prevention and Mitigation through G2011001+1 种基金the Laboratory of Data Analysis and Application, State Oceanic Administration through LDAA-2013-02the State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering through G2009586812
文摘To investigate the annual and interaunual variability of ocean surface wind over the South China Sea （SCS）, the vector empirical orthogonal function （VEOF） method and the Hilbert-Huang transform （HHT） method were employed to analyze a set of combined satellite scatterometer wind data during the period from December 1992 to October 2009. The merged wind data were generated from European Remote Sensing Satellite （ERS）-1/2 Scatterometer, NASA Scatterometer （NSCAT） and NASA＇s Quick Scatterometer （QuikSCAT） wind products. The first VEOF mode corresponds to a winter-summer mode which accounts for 87.3% of the total variance and represents the East Asian monsoon features. The second mode of VEOF corresponds to a spring-autumn oscil- lation which accounts for 8.3% of the total variance. To analyze the interannual variability, the annual signal was removed from the wind data set and the VEOFs of the residuals were calculated. The temporal mode of the ftrst intcrannual VEOF is correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index （SOI） with a four-month lag. The second temporal interannual VEOF mode is correlated with the SOI with no time lag. The time series of the two interannual VEOFs were decomposed using the HI-IT method and the results also show a correlation between the interannual variability and El Nino-Southern Oscillation （ENSO） events.
文摘With available high-resolution ocean surface wind vectors retrieved from the U.S.Naval Research Laboratory's WindSat on Coriolis,the impact of these data on genesis and forecasting of tropical storm Henri is examined using the non-hydrostatic,fifth-generation mesoscale model(MM5) of Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research plus its newly released three-dimensional variational data assimilation(3DVAR) system.It is shown that the assimilation of the WindSat-retrieved ocean surface wind vectors in the 3DVAR system improves the model initialization fields by introducing a stronger vortex in the lower troposphere.As a result,the model reproduces the storm formation and track reasonably close to the observations.Compared to the experiment without the WindSat surface winds,the WindSat assimilation reduced an error between the model simulated track and observations of more than 80 km and also improved the storm intensity by nearly 2 hPa.It suggests that these data could provide early detection and prediction of tropical storms or hurricanes.
文摘Knowing the pattern of surface winds on the seas and oceans and how it changes over time is of great importance. In this research, the monthly surface wind fields on the Indian Ocean have been studied and analyzed for a 35-year period (1981-2015), using NCEP/NCAR data reanalysis. The results show that transition from cold to warm pattern happens in May and that the summer monsoon pattern begins in June and continues until August. The wind speed pattern tends to the winter monsoon from November on. The maximum average wind speed in June is 13 m/s and its minimum is 2 m/s in October. Direction of prevailing winds is the southwest in the summer. The highest wind speed happens in the latitude of 10 - 15 degrees. Analysis of the wind distribution shows that the wind speed of 2 - 5 m/s happens in about 60% of the cases. There is probability of blowing 0.5 - 4 m/s wind for all months;but this probability is higher in the autumn (October and November) than that in the summer (July and August). Probability of the monthly over 5 m/s winds shows a definitely opposite distribution;that is, wind speed in July and August is higher than that in October. A long-term survey on the speed of surface water wind and sea surface temperature shows an opposite changing trend in wind speed and sea surface temperature during a 55-year statistical period. Wind speed reduced, while the sea surface temperature was increasing. The wind speed gradient in the upper levels of atmosphere graph has been increasing;this phenomenon confirms the effects of global warming and ocean warming on the monsoon system patterns in the Indian Ocean. Keywords
基金supported in part by NSF Grant(Grant No.AGS-1061998)NOAA Grant(Grant No.NA08OAR4310885)+3 种基金NASA Grants(Grant Nos.NNX08AT50G and NNX09AF41G)supportedby the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2013CB430302)the Public Science and Technology Research Funds of Ocean(Grant No.201105018)additionally supported by China Scholarship Council(CSC)with The Ocean University of China,Qingdao,China
文摘An ocean general circulation model （OGCM） is used to demonstrate remote effects of tropical cyclone wind （TCW） forcing in the tropical Pacific. The signature of TCW forcing is explicitly extracted using a locally weighted quadratic least=squares regression （called as LOESS） method from six-hour satellite surface wind data; the extracted TCW component can then be additionally taken into account or not in ocean modeling, allowing isolation of its effects on the ocean in a clean and clear way. In this paper, seasonally varying TCW fields in year 2008 are extracted from satellite data which are prescribed as a repeated annual cycle over the western Pacific regions off the equator （poleward of 10°N/S）; two long-term OGCM experiments are performed and compared, one with the TCW forcing part included additionally and the other not. Large, persistent thermal perturbations （cooling in the mixed layer （ML） and warming in the thermocline） are induced locally in the western tropical Pacific, which are seen to spread with the mean ocean circulation pathways around the tropical basin. In particular, a remote ocean response emerges in the eastern equatorial Pacific to the prescribed off-equatorial TCW forcing, characterized by a cooling in the mixed layer and a warming in the thermocline. Heat budget analyses indicate that the vertical mixing is a dominant process responsible for the SST cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Further studies are clearly needed to demonstrate the significance of these results in a coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling context.
基金The work was supported by the One Hundred Talents Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KCL14014)the Impacts of Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions over the East Asian Mon soon Region on the Climate in China(EAMOLA)(Grant No:ZKCX2-SW-210)the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40325016).
文摘A lattice Boltzmann (LB) model with overall second-order accuracy is applied to the 1.5-layer shallow water equation for a wind-driven double-gyre ocean circulation. By introducing the second-order integral approximation for the collision operator, the model becomes fully explicit. In this case, any iterative technique is not needed. The Coriolis force and other external forces are included in the model with second-order accuracy, which is consistent with the discretized accuracy of the LB equation. The numerical results show correct physics of the ocean circulation driven by the double-gyre wind stress with different Reynolds numbers and different spatial resolutions. An intrinsic low-frequency variability of the shallow water model is also found. The wind-driven ocean circulation exhibits subannual and interannual oscillations, which are comparable to those of models in which the conventional numerical methods are used.
基金supported by the Key Special Project for the Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) (Grant No. GML2019ZD0302)the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFC1506205)
文摘The ocean surface wind(OSW)data retrieved from microwave scatterometers have high spatial accuracy and represent the only wind data assimilated by global numerical models on the ocean surface,thus playing an important role in improving the forecast skills of global medium-range weather prediction models.To improve the forecast skills of the Global/Regional Assimilation and Prediction System Global Forecast System(GRAPES_GFS),the HY-2B OSW data is assimilated into the GRAPES_GFS four-dimensional variational assimilation(4DVAR)system.Then,the impacts of the HY-2B OSW data assimilation on the analyses and forecasts of GRAPES_GFS are analyzed based on one-month assimilation cycle experiments.The results show that after assimilating the HY-2B OSW data,the analysis errors of the wind fields in the lower-middle troposphere(1000-600 hPa)of the tropics and the southern hemisphere(SH)are significantly reduced by an average rate of about 5%.The impacts of the HY-2B OSW data assimilation on the analysis fields of wind,geopotential height,and temperature are not solely limited to the boundary layer but also extend throughout the entire troposphere after about two days of cycling assimilation.Furthermore,assimilating the HY-2B OSW data can significantly improve the forecast skill of wind,geopotential height,and temperature in the troposphere of the tropics and SH.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42305153)Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(LQ21D060001 and LZJMZ23D05000)+6 种基金East China Meteorological Science and Technology Collaborative Innovation Foundation Cooperation Project(QYHZ202307)Fengyun Application Pioneering Project(FY-APP-2021.0105)Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Meteorological Bureau(2021YB07,2022ZD06,and 2023YB06)Open Project of Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster,Ministry of Education/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters(KLME202408)Open Grants of the State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather(2024LASW-B22)Innovation and Development Project of China Meteorological Administration(CXFZ2022J040)Youth Innovation Team Fund of China Meteorological Administration(CMA2023QN12)。
文摘Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar(SAR)can provide unique capabilities to measure ocean surface winds under tropical cyclones(TCs),on synoptic scales,and at a very high spatial resolution.In this paper,we first discuss the accuracy and reliability of SAR-retrieved TC marine winds.The results show that wind retrievals from SAR images are in good agreement with Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer(SFMR)measurements,with root-mean-square error(RMSE)and correlation coefficient(CC)of 3.52 m s^(−1) and 0.91,respectively.Based on the marine winds retrieved from SAR images,a relatively simple method is applied to extract the storm intensity(maximum wind speed)and wind radii(R34,R50,and R64)from 234 cross-polarized SAR images,in the Northwest Pacific Ocean from 2015 to 2023.The SAR-retrieved TC wind radii and intensities are compared with the best-track reports,with RMSEs for R34,R50,and R64 being 48.32,41.88,and 38.51 km,and CCs being 0.87,0.83,and 0.65,respectively.In terms of TC intensity,the RMSE and bias between SAR estimates and best-track data are 7.32 and 0.38 m s^(−1),respectively.For TC Surigae(2023),we found that employing a combination of multiplatform SARs,acquired within a short time interval,has the potential to simultaneously measure the intensity and wind structure parameters.In addition,for a storm with a long life cycle,the multitemporal synergistic SARs can be used to investigate fine-scale features of the TC ocean winds,as well as the evolution of TC surface wind intensities and wind structures.
文摘The characteristics of the response of equatorial Pacific upper ocean current to westerly wind bursts(WWB)were analyzed in the frequency domain by using wind and ADCP data collected by the Shiyan3 during TOGA-COARE IOP,1992-1993.The preliminary results showed that the response consistedof an eastward surface jet at shallower than 60m depth,a westward counter current centering near100m and a shear layer between them,with the variations of all three being nonlinear and nearlysynchronous.The oceanic responses in the frequency domain were characterized by occurrences of a remotely forced mixed Rossby-gravity wave with period of 8-10 days in the surface jet andcountercurrent at shallower than 110 m depth,and two locally forced waves with periods of 24 daysand 4-5 days limited in shallower than 70m depth.These fluctuations of the responses depended much more on zonal wind than meridional wind.The results also revealed that the oceanic response toWWB resulted from momentum transport and energy propagation
文摘In their daily practices, meteorologists make extensive use of the geostrophic wind properties to explain many weather phenomena such as the meaning and direction of the horizontal winds that take place around the low atmospheric pressures. The biggest challenge that faces the public who is interested in information disseminated by meteorologists is to know exactly what means the geostrophic wind. Besides the literal definitions scattered in very little scientific work, there is unfortunately no book which gives importance to the algebraic definition of the geostrophic wind. Our work shows that to better understand the behavior of natural phenomena, it is essential to combine the theories with based observations. Obviously, observations cannot be relevant without a theory that guides the observers. Conversely, no theory can be validated without experimental verification. Synoptic observations show that in the “free atmosphere!” the wind vectors are very nearly parallel to isobars, and the flow is perpendicular to the horizontal pressure gradient force, at least at any given instant. This kind of information recommends great caution when making geostrophic approximations. Our work also shows that for tornadoes, there is no need to move away from the surface of the oceans to observe the geostrophic balance. Undoubtedly, identification and interpretation of earth’s atmosphere dynamics’ and thermodynamics’ similarities between rogue waves and oceans’ surface geostrophic wind will be an easy exercise to researchers who will give importance to result provided by this paper.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.40576020
文摘In order to fulfill the no-slip condition at the western and eastern boundaries of the ocean basin, introduced ＂effective wind stress＂, which has much larger spatial variations towards the boundaries than in the ocean interior. The effective wind stress can thus be decomposed into spatially slow-varying and fast varying components. Careful scale analysis on the classical Munk winddriven ocean circulation theory, which consists of the interior Sverdrup flow and the western boundary current but of no eastern boundary current, shows that the wind stress curl appearing in the Sverdrup equation must have negligible spatial variations. In the present model the spatially slow-varying component of the wind stress appears in the Sverdrup equation, and the spatially fastvarying component becomes the forcing term of the boundary equations. As a result, in addition to the classical Munk solution the present model has an extra term at the western boundary which （Northern Hemisphere） increases the northward transport as well as the southward return transport, and has a term at the eastern boundary corresponding to the eastern boundary current.
基金The work is supported by the ＂100 Talent project＂ of Chinese Academy of Sciences （Grant No. KCL14014） the National 0utstanding Youth Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 40325016）.
文摘A coupled lattice Boltzmann （LB） model with second-order accuracy is applied to the reduced-gravity, shallow water, 2.5-layer model for wind-driven double-gyre ocean circulation. By introducing the secondorder integral approximation for the collision operator, the model becomes fully explicit. The Coriolis force and other external forces are included in the model with second-order accuracy, which is consistent with the discretization accuracy of the LB equation. The feature of the multiple equilibria solutions is found in the numerical experiments under different Reynolds numbers based on this LB scheme. With the Reynolds number increasing from 3000 to 4000, the solution of this model is destabilized from the anti-symmetric double-gyre solution to the subtropic gyre solution and then to the subpolar gyre solution. The transitions between these equilibria states are also found in some parameter ranges. The time-dependent variability of the circulation based on this LB simulation is also discussed for varying viscosity regimes. The flow of this model exhibits oscillations with different timescales varying from subannual to interannual. The corresponding statistical oscillation modes are obtained by spectral analysis. By analyzing the spatiotemporal structures of these modes, it is found that the subannual oscillation with a 9-month period originates from the barotropic Rossby basin mode, and the interarmual oscillations with periods ranging from 1.5 years to 4.6 years originate from the recirculation gyre modes, which include the barotropic and the baroclinic recirculation gyre modes.
基金The Junior Fellowships for CAST Advanced Innovation Think-tank Program under contract No.DXB-ZKQN-2016-019the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China under contract No.2013CB956200+2 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.41275086the Academic Program of Dalian Naval Academy under contract No.2016-01the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under contract No.ZR2016DL09
文摘Under the background of energy crisis, the development of renewable energy will significantly alleviate the energy and environmental crisis. On the basis of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts（ECMWF）interim reanalysis（ERA-interim） wind data, the annual and seasonal grade divisions of the global offshore wind energy are investigated. The results show that the annual mean offshore wind energy has great potential. The wind energy over the westerly oceans of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres is graded as Class 7（the highest）, whereas that over most of the mid-low latitude oceans are higher than Class 4. The wind energy over the Arctic Ocean（Class 4） is more optimistic than the traditional evaluations. Seasonally, the westerly oceans of the Northern Hemisphere with a Class 7 wind energy are found to be largest in January, followed by April and October, and smallest in July. The area of the Class 7 wind energy over the westerly oceans of the Southern Hemisphere are found to be largest in July and slightly smaller in the other months. In July, the wind energy over the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal is graded as Class 7, which is obviously richer than that in other months. It is shown that in this data set in April and October, the majority of the northern Indian Ocean are regions of indigent wind energy resource.
基金The National High Technology Research and Development Program(863 Program)of China under contract No.2013AA122803the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41506033,41576013 and 41476021
文摘The temporal and spatial variations in the wind and wave fields in the Pacific Ocean between 2002 and 2011 are analyzed using a third-generation wave model（WAVEWATCH III）. The model performance for a significant wave height is validated using in situ buoy data. The results show that the wave model effectively hindcasts the significant wave height in the Pacific Ocean, but the errors are relatively large in the mid- and low-latitude regions. The spatial distributions and temporal variations in a wind speed and the significant wave height in the Pacific Ocean are then considered after dividing the Pacific Ocean into five regions, which show meridional differences and seasonal cycles. Regional mean values are used to give yearly average time series for each separate zone. The high latitude region in the Southern Hemisphere had a stronger significant wave height trend in the model results than regions at other latitudes. The sources and sinks of wave energy are then investigated. Their regional mean values are used to quantify variations in surface waves. Finally, the spectral analyses of the daily mean wind speeds and the significant wave heights are obtained. The significant wave height and the wind speed spectra are found to be connected in some ways but also show certain differences.
基金the Global Change and Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction National Special Project (No. 2016-523)the open foundation of the Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. Y707k31001)+4 种基金the Junior Fellowships for CAST Advanced Innovation Think-Tank Program (No. DXB-ZKQN 2016-019)the National Key Basic Research Development Program (No. 2012CB957803)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41490642, 41405062, 71371148)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 3132017301)the Science found- ation of China (Xi’an) Silk Road Academy (No. 2016SY02)
文摘Wind and waves are key components of the climate system as they drive air-sea interactions and influence weather systems and atmospheric circulation. In marine environments, understanding surface wind and wave fields and their evolution over time is important for conducting safe and efficient human activities, such as navigation and engineering. This study considers long-term trends in the sea surface wind speed(WS) and significant wave height(SWH) in the China Seas over the period 1988–2011 using the Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform(CCMP) ocean surface wind product and a 24-year hindcast wave dataset obtained from the WAVEWATCH-III(WW3) wave model forced with CCMP winds. The long-term trends in WS and SWH in the China Seas are analyzed over the past 24 years to provide a reference point from which to assess future climate change and offshore wind and wave energy resource development in the region. Results demonstrate that over the period 1988–2011 in the China Seas: 1) WS and SWH showed a significant increasing trend of 3.38 cm s^(-1)yr^(-1) and 1.52 cm yr^(-1), respectively; 2) there were notable regional differences in the long-term trends of WS and SWH; 3) areas with strong increasing trends were located mainly in the middle of the Tsushima Strait, the northern and southern areas of the Taiwan Strait, and in nearshore regions of the northern South China Sea; and 4) the long-term trend in WS was closely associated with El Ni?o and a significant increase in the occurrence of gale force winds in the region.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41276001)the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDA11010201)+2 种基金the Global Change and Air-Sea Interaction Program(No.GASI-03-01-01-05)the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(No.2012CB417401)the Scientific and Technological Development Plan Project of Shandong Province(No.2013GRC31503)
文摘The North Equatorial Countercurrent(NECC) is an important zonal fl ow in the upper circulation of the tropical Pacifi c Ocean, which plays a vital role in the heat budget of the western Pacifi c warm pool. Using satellite-derived data of ocean surface currents and sea surface heights(SSHs) from 1992 to 2011, the seasonal variation of the surface NECC in the western tropical Pacifi c Ocean was investigated. It was found that the intensity(INT) and axis position(Y_(CM)) of the surface NECC exhibit strikingly different seasonal fl uctuations in the upstream(128°–136°E) and downstream(145°–160°E) regions. Of the two regions, the seasonal cycle of the upstream NECC shows the greater interannual variability. Its INT and Y CM are greatly infl uenced by variations of the Mindanao Eddy, Mindanao Dome(MD), and equatorial Rossby waves to its south. Both INT and YC M also show semiannual signals induced by the combined effects of equatorial Rossby waves from the Central Pacifi c and local wind forcing in the western Pacifi c Ocean. In the downstream region, the variability of the NECC is affected by SSH anomalies in the MD and the central equatorial Pacifi c Ocean. Those in the MD region are especially important in modulating the Y CM of the downstream NECC. In addition to the SSH-related geostrophic fl ow, zonal Ekman fl ow driven by meridional wind stress also plays a role, having considerable impact on INT variability of the surface NECC. The contrasting features of the variability of the NECC in the upstream and downstream regions refl ect the high complexity of regional ocean dynamics.
文摘海上浮式风机在海洋环境中会受到多种因素的影响,这些海洋环境会显著改变浮式风机的运动状态,进而使风机的发电性能发生改变。研究了不同风浪条件下海流对半潜型浮式风力发电机运动响应的影响,并比较分析了海流对风力机发电功率的影响。选取半潜型浮式平台和5 MW风力机作为研究对象,采用OpenFAST、FAST to AQWA(F2A)和AQWA软件进行仿真。首先,在稳态风规则波、稳态风不规则波和湍流风不规则波3种环境条件下,分别计算了浮式平台的纵荡、垂荡、纵摇运动响应以及发电功率;然后,计算添加海流因素之后上述海况下的运动响应和发电功率。结果表明:海流主要对纵荡运动产生较大影响,最大差异达到13%,但对垂荡运动和纵摇运动的影响相对较小;在3种环境条件下的发电功率计算中,海流对风力发电机的平均发电功率和最大发电功率没有影响,工况间的差异小于1%,但在较复杂的工况下,发电功率的标准偏差差异较小,海流不会对发电功率的变化震荡程度产生影响。
