The seasonal thermal structure in the Bobal Sea are examined with a three-dimensional boroclinic primitiveequation model for shelf sea. The evolution of the seasonal thermal stratification is well simulated. The strat...The seasonal thermal structure in the Bobal Sea are examined with a three-dimensional boroclinic primitiveequation model for shelf sea. The evolution of the seasonal thermal stratification is well simulated. The stratification ap pears early in April, first in the area off Qinhuangdao and it is well developed in the middle of May. It intensifies withsynoptic and neap-spring nuctuations throughout the summer and reaches its maximum in the middle of July. Eventually,it is destroyed at the end of September. There are cold water belts between well-mixed and stratified regions. They are lo cated on the mixed side of tidal fronts, and coincide with the isolines for a temperature difference of 1-2℃ between surface and bottom. The sea surface temperature(SST)distribution shows local maxima at the head of three bays and to thesouth of Qinhuangdao during the summer. The Bobal Sea responds to the variability in the atmospheric forcing and intides with the synoptic and neap-spring variations of SST, as well as in the stratification and in variable positions of tidalfronts展开更多
文摘The seasonal thermal structure in the Bobal Sea are examined with a three-dimensional boroclinic primitiveequation model for shelf sea. The evolution of the seasonal thermal stratification is well simulated. The stratification ap pears early in April, first in the area off Qinhuangdao and it is well developed in the middle of May. It intensifies withsynoptic and neap-spring nuctuations throughout the summer and reaches its maximum in the middle of July. Eventually,it is destroyed at the end of September. There are cold water belts between well-mixed and stratified regions. They are lo cated on the mixed side of tidal fronts, and coincide with the isolines for a temperature difference of 1-2℃ between surface and bottom. The sea surface temperature(SST)distribution shows local maxima at the head of three bays and to thesouth of Qinhuangdao during the summer. The Bobal Sea responds to the variability in the atmospheric forcing and intides with the synoptic and neap-spring variations of SST, as well as in the stratification and in variable positions of tidalfronts
