Heat transport variation due to change of North Pacific subtropical gyre interior flow during 1993–2012

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2016-10-13
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  • 10.1007/s10236-016-1007-2
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Applying segment-wise altimetry-based gravest empirical mode method to expendable bathythermograph temperature, Argo salinity, and altimetric sea surface height data in March, June, and November from San Francisco to near Japan (30∘ N, 145∘ E) via Honolulu, we estimated the component of the heat transport variation caused by change in the southward interior geostrophic flow of the North Pacific subtropical gyre in the top 700 m layer during 1993–2012. The volume transport-weighted temperature (T I) is strongly dependent on the season. The anomaly of T I from the mean seasonal variation, whose standard deviation is 0.14∘C, was revealed to be caused mainly by change in the volume transport in a potential density layer of 25.0−25.5σ 𝜃 . The anomaly of T I was observed to vary on a decadal or shorter, i.e., quasi-decadal (QD), timescale. The QD-scale variation of T I had peaks in 1998 and 2007, equivalent to the reduction in the net heat transport by 6 and 10 TW, respectively, approximately 1 year before those of sea surface temperature (SST) in the warm pool region, east of the Philippines. This suggests that variation in T I affects the warm pool SST through modification of the heat balance owing to the entrainment of southward transported water into the mixed layer.

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  • Ocean Dynamics

    Ocean Dynamics 66 (12), 1637-1649, 2016-10-13

    Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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