DOI: 10.1002/2016MS000768
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85014537922
论文题名: Submesoscale contribution to subduction: Tracer and momentum fluxes
作者: Canuto V ; M
刊名: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
ISSN: 19422466
出版年: 2017
卷: 9, 期: 1 起始页码: 609
结束页码: 615
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Organic carbon
; Reynolds number
; Dissolved carbons
; Mean concentrations
; Meso scale
; Mixed layer depths
; Momentum equation
; Specific location
; Subduction
; Vertical diffusion
; Momentum
; carbon cycle
; concentration (composition)
; dissolved organic carbon
; mesoscale eddy
; mixed layer
; momentum transfer
; salinity
; sea surface temperature
; subduction
; tracer
; vertical mixing
; Southern Ocean
英文摘要: An important component of the carbon-cycle is subduction, for example of dissolved carbon, from the surface layers to depths of (102) – (103) Recently, attention has been focused on the contribution by small-scale, mesoscale M, and submesoscale SM eddies. In the Southern Ocean, the M contribution to subduction was found to be negative and of an order of magnitude smaller than the positive one by vertical diffusion. Since there is now observational evidence that SM export organic carbon but they have not yet been included in subduction studies, the goal of this work is to derive the following results needed to carry out such studies: (a) OGCMs used in C-cycle studies solve the equations for the mean temperature, mean salinity, and mean concentration. We derive the forms of the 3-D arbitrary tracer fluxes in terms of resolved fields. (b) The same OGCMs also solve the mean momentum equation. We derive the form of the SM momentum fluxes (Reynolds Stresses) also in terms of resolved fields. (c) It is shown that whether there is subduction or obduction depends on the ratio h/H, where h is depth of the SM regime and H is the mixed-layer depth. We show that in the ACC the ratio depends on the specific location and that both subduction and obduction occur but with a topology different than that of mesoscales. © 2017. The Authors. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/75827
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作者单位: NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States; Department of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Recommended Citation:
Canuto V,M. Submesoscale contribution to subduction: Tracer and momentum fluxes[J]. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems,2017-01-01,9(1)