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Statistical characteristics of droplets formed due to the “bag breakup” fragmentation event at the interface between water and high-speed air flow. 在水和高速气流之间的界面处，由于“袋破裂”碎裂事件而形成的液滴的统计特征。

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-23-0037.1

Y. Troitskaya, A. Kandaurov, A. Zotova, E. Korsukova, D. Sergeev

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Stratification Breakdown in Antarctic Coastal Polynyas, Part I: Influence of Physical Factors on the Destratification Timescale 南极海岸融冰的分层分解，第一部分:物理因素对分层分解时间尺度的影响

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0218.1

Yilang Xu, W. Zhang, T. Maksym, R. Ji, Yun Li

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Stratification Breakdown in Antarctic Coastal Polynyas, Part II: Influence of an Ice Tongue and Coastline Geometry 南极海岸Polynyas的地层破裂，第二部分：冰舌和海岸线几何形状的影响

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0219.1

Yilang Xu, W. Zhang, T. Maksym, R. Ji, Yun Li

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Observable large-scale impacts of tropical cyclones on subtropical gyre 热带气旋对副热带环流的大尺度影响

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0230.1

Zhumin Lu, Guihua Wang, X. Shang

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Wind and heat forcings of the seasonal and interannual sea level variabilities in the southwest Pacific 西南太平洋海平面季节和年际变化的风和热强迫

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-23-0018.1

Lina Yang, Xinyang Zhao, Peng Liang, Tianyu Zhang, L. Xie, R. Murtugudde

{"title":"Wind and heat forcings of the seasonal and interannual sea level variabilities in the southwest Pacific","authors":"Lina Yang, Xinyang Zhao, Peng Liang, Tianyu Zhang, L. Xie, R. Murtugudde","doi":"10.1175/jpo-d-23-0018.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-23-0018.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Sea level variabilities in the southwest Pacific contribute to the variations of equatorial current bifurcation and the Indonesian Throughflow transport. These processes are closely related to the recharge/discharge of equatorial heat content and dynamic distribution of anthropogenic ocean heating over the Indo-Pacific basin, thus being of profound significance for climate variability and change. Here we identify the major features of seasonal and interannual sea level variabilities in this region, confirming the dominance of the first baroclinic mode in the tropics (contributing 60–80% of the variances) and higher baroclinic modes in the extra-tropics (40–60% of the seasonal variance). Seasonally, except in the western Coral Sea where the Ekman pumping is significant, the wind-driven first-mode baroclinic Rossby waves originating to the east of the dateline control the sea level variations over most tropical Pacific regions. In the domain where the 1.5-layer reduced gravity model becomes deficient, the surface heat fluxes dominate, explaining ~40–80% of sea level variance. For interannual variability, ~40–60% of the variance are El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-related. The wind-driven Rossby and Kelvin waves east of the dateline explain ~40–78% of the interannual variance in the tropical Pacific. Outside the tropics, small-scale diffusive processes are presumed critical for interannual variability according to a thermodynamic analysis using an eddy-permitting ocean model simulation. Further process and predictive understandings can be achieved with the coupled climate models properly parameterizing the sub-grid-scale processes.","PeriodicalId":56115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physical Oceanography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42665178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Indonesian Throughflow Partitioning Between Leeuwin and South Equatorial Currents 列文洋流与南赤道洋流之间的印度尼西亚通流划分

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-12 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0205.1

L. Gruenburg, A. Gordon, A. Thurnherr

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A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Empirical Modelling of Single-Point Wave Spectra in Open Oceans 基于深度学习的公海单点波谱经验建模方法

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-09 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0198.1

Yuhao Song, Haoyu Jiang

{"title":"A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Empirical Modelling of Single-Point Wave Spectra in Open Oceans","authors":"Yuhao Song, Haoyu Jiang","doi":"10.1175/jpo-d-22-0198.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-22-0198.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Directional wave spectra are of importance for numerous practical applications such as seafaring and ocean engineering. The wave spectral densities at a certain point in the open ocean are significantly correlated to the local wind field and historical remote wind field. This feature can be used to predict the wave spectrum at that point using the wind field. In this study, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model was established to estimate wave spectra at a target point using the wind field from the ERA5 dataset. A geospatial range where the wind could impact the target point was selected and then the historical wind field data within the range was analyzed to extract the nonlinear quantitative relationships between wind fields and wave spectra. For the spectral densities at a given direction, the wind data along the direction where waves come from were used as the input of the CNN. The model was trained to minimize the Mean Square Error (MSE) between the CNN-predicted and ERA5 re-analysis spectral density. The data structure of the wind input is reorganized into a polar grid centered on the target point to make the model applicable to different open-ocean locations worldwide. The results show that the model can well predict the wave spectrum shapes and integral wave parameters. The model allows for the prediction of single-point wave spectra in the open ocean with low computational cost and can be helpful for the study of spectral wave climate.","PeriodicalId":56115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physical Oceanography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46420736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the Northern Philippine Sea 菲律宾海北部深层西部边界流的变率

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-08 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-23-0025.1

Qinbo Xu, Chun Zhou, Linlin Zhang, Fan Wang, Wei Zhao, D. Hu

{"title":"Variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current in the Northern Philippine Sea","authors":"Qinbo Xu, Chun Zhou, Linlin Zhang, Fan Wang, Wei Zhao, D. Hu","doi":"10.1175/jpo-d-23-0025.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-23-0025.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The deep western boundary current (DWBC) was studied based on a full-depth mooring east of Luzon Island in the Northern Philippine Sea deep basin during the period from January 2018 to May 2020. On average, the DWBC in the Philippine Sea flows southward with a velocity of approximately 1.18 cm s−1 at a depth of 3050 m. Significant intraseasonal and seasonal variations of the DWBC are identified. The intraseasonal variations have multiple spectral peaks in the range of 30-200 days, with the most obvious peak at approximately 120 days. On the seasonal time scale, the DWBC intensifies in summer/autumn and weakens in winter/spring, corresponding well with the seasonal variation of the ocean bottom pressure (OBP) from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment. Both intraseasonal and seasonal variations have no significant correlation with the temporal variations in the upper and middle layers but have a certain correlation with transport through the Yap-Mariana Junction (YMJ). A set of experiments based on an inverted-reduced-gravity model and the OBP data reveal that the temporal variations originating from the YMJ could propagate counterclockwise along the boundary of the deep basin to the western boundary of the deep Philippine Sea, dominating the temporal variations of DWBC.","PeriodicalId":56115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physical Oceanography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41902155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Downward Propagation and Trapping of Near-Inertial Waves by a Westward-moving Anticyclonic Eddy in the Subtropical Northwestern Pacific Ocean 副热带西北太平洋向西移动的反气旋涡旋对近惯性波的向下传播和捕获

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0226.1

Zifei Chen, F. Yu, Zhiwu Chen, Jianfeng Wang, Feng Nan, Qiang Ren, Yibo Hu, A. Cao, Tongtong Zheng

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Basin Scale to Submesoscale Variability of the East-Mediterranean Sea Upper Circulation 东地中海上层环流的盆地尺度到亚中尺度变率

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Journal of Physical Oceanography Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-22-0243.1

A. Solodoch, R. Barkan, V. Verma, H. Gildor, Y. Toledo, P. Khain, Y. Levi

{"title":"Basin Scale to Submesoscale Variability of the East-Mediterranean Sea Upper Circulation","authors":"A. Solodoch, R. Barkan, V. Verma, H. Gildor, Y. Toledo, P. Khain, Y. Levi","doi":"10.1175/jpo-d-22-0243.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-22-0243.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The East Mediterranean Sea (EMS) circulation has previously been characterized as dominated by gyres, mesoscale eddies, and disjoint boundary currents. We develop nested high-resolution numerical simulations in the EMS to examine the circulation variability with an emphasis on the yet unexplored regional submesoscale currents. Rather than several disjoint currents, a continuous cyclonic boundary current (BC) encircling the Levantine basin is identified in both model solution and altimetry data. This EMS BC advects eddy chains downstream and is identified as a principle source of regional mesoscale and submesoscale current variability. During the seasonal fall to winter mixed layer deepening, energetic submesoscale (O(10 km)) eddies, fronts, and filaments emerge throughout the basin, characterized by O(1) Rossby numbers. A submesoscale time scale range of ≈1–5 days is identified using spatiotemporal analysis of the numerical solutions, and confirmed through mooring data. The submesoscale kinetic energy (KE) wavenumber (k) spectral slope is found to be k−2, shallower than the quasigeostrophic-like ~ k−3 slope diagnosed in summer. The shallowness of the winter spectral slope is shown to be due to divergent subinertial motions, consistent with the Boyd 1992 theoretical model, rather than with the surface quasigeostrophic model. Using a coarse graining approach, we diagnose a seasonal inverse (forward) KE cascade above (below) 30 km scales due to rotational (divergent) motions, and show that these commence after completion of the fall submesosacle energization. We also show that at scales larger than several 100 kms, the spectral density becomes near-constant and a weak forward cascade occurs, from gyre scales to mesoscales.","PeriodicalId":56115,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physical Oceanography","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41593585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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