气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Barrier Layers in a High-Resolution Model in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

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DOI	10.1029/2020JC016643
	Barrier Layers in a High-Resolution Model in the Eastern Tropical Pacific
	Bingham F.M.; Li Z.; Katsura S.; Sprintall J.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	21699275
卷号	125 期号:12
英文摘要	This study examines salinity barrier layers (BLs) in the eastern tropical North Pacific in the region of the Salinity Processes in the Upper ocean Regional Studies-2 field campaign. We utilize a high-resolution numerical model to study BLs and their relationship to frontal features and small-scale ocean variability, focusing on two specific events. One is associated with a large outbreak of BL presence near 7°N along 125°W. The other is a relatively isolated but persistent BL that forms near 13°N, again along 125°W. In both cases we find that the BL is proximate to a salinity frontal feature in which isohalines tilt toward the fresh side of the front at its base. The BLs studied are associated with divergent flow at the surface on the fresh side of the front and convergent flow on the salty side. Tilting of the front is invoked to explain this, with an additional mechanism involving a vertical circulation which causes the base of the front to tilt preferentially. © 2020. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
英文关键词	barrier layer; salinity; SPURS-2
语种	英语
来源期刊	Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/186576
作者单位	Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States; California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bingham F.M.,Li Z.,Katsura S.,et al. Barrier Layers in a High-Resolution Model in the Eastern Tropical Pacific[J],2020,125(12).
APA	Bingham F.M.,Li Z.,Katsura S.,&Sprintall J..(2020).Barrier Layers in a High-Resolution Model in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans,125(12).
MLA	Bingham F.M.,et al."Barrier Layers in a High-Resolution Model in the Eastern Tropical Pacific".Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 125.12(2020).