An OGCM, LICOM2.0, was used to investigate the effects of different surface boundary conditions for sea surface salinity （SSS） on simulations of global mean salinity, SSS, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Cir...An OGCM, LICOM2.0, was used to investigate the effects of different surface boundary conditions for sea surface salinity （SSS） on simulations of global mean salinity, SSS, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation （AMOC）. Four numerical experiments （CTRL, Expl, Exp2 and Exp3） were designed with the same forcing data-set, CORE.v2, and different surface boundary conditions for SSS~ A new surface salinity boundary condition that consists of both virtual and real salt fluxes was adopted in the fourth experiment （Exp3）. Compared with the other experiments, the new salinity boundary condition prohibited a monotonous increasing or decreasing global mean salinity trend. As a result, global salinity was approximately conserved in EXP3. In the default salinity boundary condition setting in LICOM2.0, a weak restoring salinity term plays an essential role in reducing the simulated SSS bias, tending to increase the global mean salinity. However, a strong restoring salinity term under the sea ice can reduce the global mean salinity. The authors also found that adopting simulated SSS in the virtual salt flux instead of constant reference salinity improved the simulation of AMOC, whose strength became closer to that observed.展开更多
Based on numerical simulation, this study explored the characteristics and interactions of surface sensible heating and atmospheric latent heating over the main part of the Tibetan Plateau, i.e., terrain at elevations...Based on numerical simulation, this study explored the characteristics and interactions of surface sensible heating and atmospheric latent heating over the main part of the Tibetan Plateau, i.e., terrain at elevations >2 km in summer. The impacts of these two types of heating on local vertical motion and monsoonal meridional circulation were compared. Theoretical analysis and numerical experimentation demonstrated that by changing the configuration of the upper-tropospheric air temperature and circulation, the two types of heating could generate both minimum absolute vorticity and abnormal potential vorticity forcing near the tropopause, enhance the meridional circulation of the Asian summer monsoon, and produce an eastward-propagating Rossby wave train within the mid-latitude westerly flow. Consequently, the manifestations of these features were shown to influence the circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.展开更多
基金partially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China[grant number 2013CB956204]the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[grant number XDA11010403],[grant number XDA11010304]the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 41305028]
文摘An OGCM, LICOM2.0, was used to investigate the effects of different surface boundary conditions for sea surface salinity （SSS） on simulations of global mean salinity, SSS, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation （AMOC）. Four numerical experiments （CTRL, Expl, Exp2 and Exp3） were designed with the same forcing data-set, CORE.v2, and different surface boundary conditions for SSS~ A new surface salinity boundary condition that consists of both virtual and real salt fluxes was adopted in the fourth experiment （Exp3）. Compared with the other experiments, the new salinity boundary condition prohibited a monotonous increasing or decreasing global mean salinity trend. As a result, global salinity was approximately conserved in EXP3. In the default salinity boundary condition setting in LICOM2.0, a weak restoring salinity term plays an essential role in reducing the simulated SSS bias, tending to increase the global mean salinity. However, a strong restoring salinity term under the sea ice can reduce the global mean salinity. The authors also found that adopting simulated SSS in the virtual salt flux instead of constant reference salinity improved the simulation of AMOC, whose strength became closer to that observed.
基金supported by the Nsyionsl Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41275088, 91437219 & 41328006)the Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry (Meteorology) administered by the Chinese Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant No. GYHY201406001)
文摘Based on numerical simulation, this study explored the characteristics and interactions of surface sensible heating and atmospheric latent heating over the main part of the Tibetan Plateau, i.e., terrain at elevations >2 km in summer. The impacts of these two types of heating on local vertical motion and monsoonal meridional circulation were compared. Theoretical analysis and numerical experimentation demonstrated that by changing the configuration of the upper-tropospheric air temperature and circulation, the two types of heating could generate both minimum absolute vorticity and abnormal potential vorticity forcing near the tropopause, enhance the meridional circulation of the Asian summer monsoon, and produce an eastward-propagating Rossby wave train within the mid-latitude westerly flow. Consequently, the manifestations of these features were shown to influence the circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.
