The large-scale upper circulations and merid-ional overturning in the upper layer of the South China Sea (SCS) with idealized bottom topography in winter and sum-mer are investigated. Simulations with the GFDL general...The large-scale upper circulations and merid-ional overturning in the upper layer of the South China Sea (SCS) with idealized bottom topography in winter and sum-mer are investigated. Simulations with the GFDL general circulation model are carried out under the conditions of open or enclosed boundary regarding transport in the Luzon Strait. The intrusion area of Kuroshio, its impact on the me-ridional overturning in the upper layer of the SCS and sea-sonal characteristic of this impact are explored, respectively. The model is forced by climatological wind stress and relaxed to monthly mean climatological temperature and salinity. The resultant meridional overturning is non-enclosed, with transporting from north to south in the surface and return-ing to north at the depth of about 500 m in winter, about 200 m in summer, with amplitudes of 105 m3/s. It shows the transporting path of intermediate water of the SCS and of-fers an idealized reference for further study on dynamics of wind-driven and thermohaline circulation of the SCS.展开更多
In this study,a two-dimensional flow-pollutant coupled model was developed based on a quadtree grid.This model was established to allow the accurate simulation of wind-driven flow in a large-scale shallow lake with ir...In this study,a two-dimensional flow-pollutant coupled model was developed based on a quadtree grid.This model was established to allow the accurate simulation of wind-driven flow in a large-scale shallow lake with irregular natural boundaries when focusing on important smallscale localized flow features.The quadtree grid was created by domain decomposition.The governing equations were solved using the finite volume method,and the normal fluxes of mass,momentum,and pollutants across the interface between cells were computed by means of a Godunov-type Osher scheme.The model was employed to simulate wind-driven flow in a circular basin with non-uniform depth.The computed values were in agreement with analytical data.The results indicate that the quadtree grid has fine local resolution and high efficiency,and is convenient for local refinement.It is clear that the quadtree grid model is effective when applied to complex flow domains.Finally,the model was used to calculate the flow field and concentration field of Taihu Lake,demonstrating its ability to predict the flow and concentration fields in an actual water area with complex geometry.展开更多
The eight main tidal constituents have been implemented in the global ocean general circulation model with approximate 1° horizontal resolution.Compared with the observation data,the patterns of the tidal amplitu...The eight main tidal constituents have been implemented in the global ocean general circulation model with approximate 1° horizontal resolution.Compared with the observation data,the patterns of the tidal amplitudes and phases had been simulated fairly well.The responses of mean circulation,temperature and salinity are further investigated in the global sense.When implementing the tidal forcing,wind-driven circulations are reduced,especially those in coastal regions.It is also found that the upper cell transport of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation（AMOC） reduces significantly,while its deep cell transport is slightly enhanced from 9×106m3/s to 10×106 m3/s.The changes of circulations are all related to the increase of a bottom friction and a vertical viscosity due to the tidal forcing.The temperature and salinity of the model are also significantly affected by the tidal forcing through the enhanced bottom friction,mixing and the changes in mean circulation.The largest changes occur in the coastal regions,where the water is cooled and freshened.In the open ocean,the changes are divided into three layers：cooled and freshened on the surface and below 3 000 m,and warmed and salted in the middle in the open ocean.In the upper two layers,the changes are mainly caused by the enhanced mixing,as warm and salty water sinks and cold and fresh water rises;whereas in the deep layer,the enhancement of the deep overturning circulation accounts for the cold and fresh changes in the deep ocean.展开更多
Zonal overturning circulation （ZOC） and its associated zonal heat flux （ZHF） are important components of the oceanic circulation and climate system, although these conceptions have not received adequate attentions...Zonal overturning circulation （ZOC） and its associated zonal heat flux （ZHF） are important components of the oceanic circulation and climate system, although these conceptions have not received adequate attentions. Heaving induced by inter-annual and decadal wind stress perturbations can give rise to anomalous ZOC and ZHF. Based on a simple reduced gravity model, the anomalous ZOC and ZHF induced by idealized heaving modes in the world oceans are studied. For example, in a Pacific-like model basin intensified equatorial easterly on decadal time scales can lead to a negative ZOC with a non-negligible magnitude （-0.3×10^6 m^3/s） and a considerable westward ZHF with an amplitude of -11.2 TW. Thus, anomalous ZOC and ZHF may consist of a major part of climate signals on decadal time scales and thus play an important role in the oceanic circulation and climate change.展开更多
The development of a simplified 2-D numerical model was described forwind-driven circulation in reservoir u-sing standard k-ε turbulence model to specify eddy viscositydistribution. The governing equations are transf...The development of a simplified 2-D numerical model was described forwind-driven circulation in reservoir u-sing standard k-ε turbulence model to specify eddy viscositydistribution. The governing equations are transformed and solved on variable vertical grids, whichallows refinement at the surface and bottom boundaries. The results of the model simulation for floware compared with analytical solutions for laminar and turbulent flows, experimental data in awind-flume and wind wave tank. The sensitivity analysis results show that use of large number ofdepth layers increases the accuracy for the bottom counter-current flow. Prediction of surface driftwas not very sensitive to surface grid refinement. The model was also applied to Baisha reservoirfor an assumed wind condition and showed to be able to simulate the general features of surfacedrift and return flow under variable flow depth. The model can serve as alternative means ofstudying wind-driven flow beside experiments. It also reduced the problem complexity associated with3-D circulation models while faithfully reproducing the drift and near bottom return currents.展开更多
The adjoint approach is a variational method which is often applied to data assimilation widely in meteorology and oceanography. It is used for analyses on observing optimization for the wind-driven Sverdrup circulati...The adjoint approach is a variational method which is often applied to data assimilation widely in meteorology and oceanography. It is used for analyses on observing optimization for the wind-driven Sverdrup circulation. The adjoint system developed by Thacker and Long (1992), which is based on the GFDL Byran-Cox model, includes three components, i. e. the forward model, the adjoint model and the optimal algorithm. The GFDL Byran-Cox model was integrated for a long time driven by a batch of ideal wind stresses whose meridional component is set to null and zonal component is a sine function of latitudes in a rectangle box with six vertical levels and 2 by 2 degree horizontal resolution. The results are regarded as a “real” representative of the wind-driven Sverdrup circulation, from which the four dimensional fields are allowed to be sampled in several ways, such as sampling at the different levels or along the different vertical sections. To set the different samples, the fields of temperature, salinity and velocities function as the observational limit in the adjoint system respectively where the same initial condition is chosen for 4D VAR data assimilation. By examining the distance functions which measure the misfit between the circulation field from the control experiment of the adjoint system with a complete observation and those from data assimilation of adjoint approach in these sensitivity experiments respectively, observing optimizations for the wind-driven Sverdrup circulation will be suggested under a fixed observational cost.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
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
To model the wind-driven ocean circulation of the isobath rectangular basin,the linear vorticity equation with the meridional friction terra was used compared to the Munk'stheory on the ocean circulation. The gene...To model the wind-driven ocean circulation of the isobath rectangular basin,the linear vorticity equation with the meridional friction terra was used compared to the Munk'stheory on the ocean circulation. The generalized solution of the vorlicity equation was thus workedout in the sense of Fourier averaging by using the corrected Fourier expansion. The method to obtainthe undetermined coefficients was presented using the viscous boundary conditions.展开更多
文摘The large-scale upper circulations and merid-ional overturning in the upper layer of the South China Sea (SCS) with idealized bottom topography in winter and sum-mer are investigated. Simulations with the GFDL general circulation model are carried out under the conditions of open or enclosed boundary regarding transport in the Luzon Strait. The intrusion area of Kuroshio, its impact on the me-ridional overturning in the upper layer of the SCS and sea-sonal characteristic of this impact are explored, respectively. The model is forced by climatological wind stress and relaxed to monthly mean climatological temperature and salinity. The resultant meridional overturning is non-enclosed, with transporting from north to south in the surface and return-ing to north at the depth of about 500 m in winter, about 200 m in summer, with amplitudes of 105 m3/s. It shows the transporting path of intermediate water of the SCS and of-fers an idealized reference for further study on dynamics of wind-driven and thermohaline circulation of the SCS.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants No.51739002 and 51479064)the World-Class Universities(Disciplines)and Characteristic Development Guidance Funds for the Central Universitiesthe Priority Academic Program Development(PAPD)of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions(Grant No.PPZY2015A051)
文摘In this study,a two-dimensional flow-pollutant coupled model was developed based on a quadtree grid.This model was established to allow the accurate simulation of wind-driven flow in a large-scale shallow lake with irregular natural boundaries when focusing on important smallscale localized flow features.The quadtree grid was created by domain decomposition.The governing equations were solved using the finite volume method,and the normal fluxes of mass,momentum,and pollutants across the interface between cells were computed by means of a Godunov-type Osher scheme.The model was employed to simulate wind-driven flow in a circular basin with non-uniform depth.The computed values were in agreement with analytical data.The results indicate that the quadtree grid has fine local resolution and high efficiency,and is convenient for local refinement.It is clear that the quadtree grid model is effective when applied to complex flow domains.Finally,the model was used to calculate the flow field and concentration field of Taihu Lake,demonstrating its ability to predict the flow and concentration fields in an actual water area with complex geometry.
基金The National Key Program for Developing Basic Sciences of China under contract No.2013CB956204the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41275084 and 41576025the Strategic Priority Research of the Chinese Academy of Science under contract Nos XDA01020304 and DA05110302
文摘The eight main tidal constituents have been implemented in the global ocean general circulation model with approximate 1° horizontal resolution.Compared with the observation data,the patterns of the tidal amplitudes and phases had been simulated fairly well.The responses of mean circulation,temperature and salinity are further investigated in the global sense.When implementing the tidal forcing,wind-driven circulations are reduced,especially those in coastal regions.It is also found that the upper cell transport of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation（AMOC） reduces significantly,while its deep cell transport is slightly enhanced from 9×106m3/s to 10×106 m3/s.The changes of circulations are all related to the increase of a bottom friction and a vertical viscosity due to the tidal forcing.The temperature and salinity of the model are also significantly affected by the tidal forcing through the enhanced bottom friction,mixing and the changes in mean circulation.The largest changes occur in the coastal regions,where the water is cooled and freshened.In the open ocean,the changes are divided into three layers：cooled and freshened on the surface and below 3 000 m,and warmed and salted in the middle in the open ocean.In the upper two layers,the changes are mainly caused by the enhanced mixing,as warm and salty water sinks and cold and fresh water rises;whereas in the deep layer,the enhancement of the deep overturning circulation accounts for the cold and fresh changes in the deep ocean.
基金The CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams of Chinese Academy of Sciencesthe National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41422601,41376024 and 41376025
文摘Zonal overturning circulation （ZOC） and its associated zonal heat flux （ZHF） are important components of the oceanic circulation and climate system, although these conceptions have not received adequate attentions. Heaving induced by inter-annual and decadal wind stress perturbations can give rise to anomalous ZOC and ZHF. Based on a simple reduced gravity model, the anomalous ZOC and ZHF induced by idealized heaving modes in the world oceans are studied. For example, in a Pacific-like model basin intensified equatorial easterly on decadal time scales can lead to a negative ZOC with a non-negligible magnitude （-0.3×10^6 m^3/s） and a considerable westward ZHF with an amplitude of -11.2 TW. Thus, anomalous ZOC and ZHF may consist of a major part of climate signals on decadal time scales and thus play an important role in the oceanic circulation and climate change.
文摘The development of a simplified 2-D numerical model was described forwind-driven circulation in reservoir u-sing standard k-ε turbulence model to specify eddy viscositydistribution. The governing equations are transformed and solved on variable vertical grids, whichallows refinement at the surface and bottom boundaries. The results of the model simulation for floware compared with analytical solutions for laminar and turbulent flows, experimental data in awind-flume and wind wave tank. The sensitivity analysis results show that use of large number ofdepth layers increases the accuracy for the bottom counter-current flow. Prediction of surface driftwas not very sensitive to surface grid refinement. The model was also applied to Baisha reservoirfor an assumed wind condition and showed to be able to simulate the general features of surfacedrift and return flow under variable flow depth. The model can serve as alternative means ofstudying wind-driven flow beside experiments. It also reduced the problem complexity associated with3-D circulation models while faithfully reproducing the drift and near bottom return currents.
文摘The adjoint approach is a variational method which is often applied to data assimilation widely in meteorology and oceanography. It is used for analyses on observing optimization for the wind-driven Sverdrup circulation. The adjoint system developed by Thacker and Long (1992), which is based on the GFDL Byran-Cox model, includes three components, i. e. the forward model, the adjoint model and the optimal algorithm. The GFDL Byran-Cox model was integrated for a long time driven by a batch of ideal wind stresses whose meridional component is set to null and zonal component is a sine function of latitudes in a rectangle box with six vertical levels and 2 by 2 degree horizontal resolution. The results are regarded as a “real” representative of the wind-driven Sverdrup circulation, from which the four dimensional fields are allowed to be sampled in several ways, such as sampling at the different levels or along the different vertical sections. To set the different samples, the fields of temperature, salinity and velocities function as the observational limit in the adjoint system respectively where the same initial condition is chosen for 4D VAR data assimilation. By examining the distance functions which measure the misfit between the circulation field from the control experiment of the adjoint system with a complete observation and those from data assimilation of adjoint approach in these sensitivity experiments respectively, observing optimizations for the wind-driven Sverdrup circulation will be suggested under a fixed observational cost.
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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No:40176008)the Major State Basic Reserch Development Program of China.(Grant No:G1999043800)
文摘To model the wind-driven ocean circulation of the isobath rectangular basin,the linear vorticity equation with the meridional friction terra was used compared to the Munk'stheory on the ocean circulation. The generalized solution of the vorlicity equation was thus workedout in the sense of Fourier averaging by using the corrected Fourier expansion. The method to obtainthe undetermined coefficients was presented using the viscous boundary conditions.
