The climate distribution and variation characteristics of temperature and salinity i n the upper surface layer of Sulawesi Sea(117-127°E,0-8°N)were analyzed using Argo T/S profiles of 0-1500 m and XBT temper...The climate distribution and variation characteristics of temperature and salinity i n the upper surface layer of Sulawesi Sea(117-127°E,0-8°N)were analyzed using Argo T/S profiles of 0-1500 m and XBT temperature profiles obtained by Chinese Antarctic scientific investigation.The results show that the temperature and salinity are respectively about 2.5℃-30℃ and 33.2‰-35.1‰ in the Sulawesi sea.Compared with the vertical changes,the T/S horizontal gradients are smaller.The temperatures gradually reduce with the in crease of the depth.The sali nities increase firstly,then decrease,and increase finally with the increase of depth.The salinity has two lower and one higher salinity areas.The whole sea surface shows the characteristics of high temperature and low salinity.T he subsurface temperature is slightly lower with salinity increasing.Middle depths are characterized by high temperature and high salinity.At the depth of 500 m,the temperature and salinity tend to be uniform.And at the bottom,T/S represent lower temperature with higher salinity.Moreover,an obvious thermocline exists at the depth of 50 m-150 m.The thermocline depth in summer is less than 90 m and is about 110 m in winter.The thermocline exists in the deeper depth in April than that of November by XBT observation sections.In the central of Sulawesi Sea,the thermocline is also relatively deeper.展开更多
文摘The climate distribution and variation characteristics of temperature and salinity i n the upper surface layer of Sulawesi Sea(117-127°E,0-8°N)were analyzed using Argo T/S profiles of 0-1500 m and XBT temperature profiles obtained by Chinese Antarctic scientific investigation.The results show that the temperature and salinity are respectively about 2.5℃-30℃ and 33.2‰-35.1‰ in the Sulawesi sea.Compared with the vertical changes,the T/S horizontal gradients are smaller.The temperatures gradually reduce with the in crease of the depth.The sali nities increase firstly,then decrease,and increase finally with the increase of depth.The salinity has two lower and one higher salinity areas.The whole sea surface shows the characteristics of high temperature and low salinity.T he subsurface temperature is slightly lower with salinity increasing.Middle depths are characterized by high temperature and high salinity.At the depth of 500 m,the temperature and salinity tend to be uniform.And at the bottom,T/S represent lower temperature with higher salinity.Moreover,an obvious thermocline exists at the depth of 50 m-150 m.The thermocline depth in summer is less than 90 m and is about 110 m in winter.The thermocline exists in the deeper depth in April than that of November by XBT observation sections.In the central of Sulawesi Sea,the thermocline is also relatively deeper.