The robust salinity anomaly event during 2015−2017 in the tropical Pacific Ocean

Shi Huangyuan; Du Ling; Xu Daohuan

doi:10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2020.03.005

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Shi Huangyuan，Du Ling，Xu Daohuan. The robust salinity anomaly event during 2015−2017 in the tropical Pacific Ocean[J]. Haiyang Xuebao，2020, 42(3)：47–58，doi:10.3969/j.issn.0253−4193.2020.03.005

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The robust salinity anomaly event during 2015−2017 in the tropical Pacific Ocean

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-4193.2020.03.005

Shi Huangyuan^1
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Du Ling^{1
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Xu Daohuan¹

College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

Received Date: 2019-03-25
Rev Recd Date: 2019-09-25

Available Online: 2020-11-18

Publish Date: 2020-03-25

Abstract

Abstract

Salinity linear trends and their contributed dynamics processes in the tropical Pacific Ocean were investigated with the Argo salinity and temperature fields, current assimilations and atmospheric reanalysis datasets. The robust salinity anomaly event (SAE) occurred in the tropical Pacific Ocean during 2015−2017, which resulted possibly in the reversing of Argo salinity long-term trends. Such SAE was characterized as distinct regional discrepancies and vertical structures. Significant surface freshening occurred in the northern tropical Pacific (NTP) and Southern Ocean Convergence Zone (SPCZ), whose remarkable freshening maximum could reach 0.71−0.92 and covered the upper mixed layer. Another subsurface salinification in the southern tropical Pacific (STP) with the maximum of 0.46 was found around thermocline layer. Moreover, the salinity anomalies in SAE can expand from west to east along the isopycnal layers. Salinity advection and entrainment were exhibited as the fundamental dynamic processes to the SAE event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, while advection term acted as the major contribution to salinity variability. Both of the dynamic factors played important role on SAE features during the whole event in the NTP and later period in the SPCZ and STP. The surface freshwater flux and subsurface mixing induce by density compensation were also supplements to the SAE events in the NTP freshening and STP salinification respectively.
- salinity anomaly event,
- advection and entrainment,
- density stratification,
- tropical Pacific Ocean

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