Patterns and mechanism of wintertime penetrating fronts in the East China Sea

作     者：Peng YE Daji HUANG Jiliang XUAN Shuangyan HE 

作者机构：Ocean CollegeZhejiang UniversityZhoushan 316021China State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment DynamicsSecond Institute of OceanographyMinistry of Natural ResourcesHangzhou 310012China Guangxi Key Laboratory of Beibu Gulf Marine ResourcesEnvironment and Sustainable DevelopmentFourth Institute of OceanographyMinistry of Natural ResourcesBeihai 536015China 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第67卷第11期

页      面：3500-3514页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42230404 & 42276021) the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant Nos. 2022YFC3103402 & 2023YFD2401904) the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. LY21D060003) the high-performance computing cluster of the State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics 

主　　题：Penetrating fronts Satellite-derived chlorophyll Lagrangian tracer experiments Synoptic-scale fluctuation Western Kuroshio Branch 

摘      要：Penetrating fronts play an important role in the cross-shelf transport of terrestrial materials in the East China Sea(ECS). Using long-term satellite remote sensing data and numerical simulation data, the most likely period of occurrence and region of the penetrating fronts in the western ECS are analyzed in this study, and the evolutionary process and mechanism are also investigated. The statistical results of satellite-derived chlorophyll data from 1998 to 2022(25 years) reveal that penetrating fronts occur most frequently near 27°N in winter, with the frequencies of occurrence in January, February and March being 47%,65% and 64%, respectively. Backward Lagrangian tracer experiments demonstrate that the penetrating water near 27°N originate from three different regions. The core penetrating low-salinity water originates from the Zhejiang-Fujian coast, while the northern marginal water originates from the northern part of Taiwan Island, and the southern marginal water originates from the central Taiwan Strait. Mechanism analysis reveals that the core penetrating low-salinity water evolves in three successive ***, under the influence of the Zhejiang-Fujian Coastal Current driven by strong northeasterly winds, the low-salinity water along the Zhejiang-Fujian coast moves southwestward parallel to the coastline and accumulates in the western Taiwan ***, during the relaxation stage of the northeasterly wind, the northeastward Taiwan Strait Current strengthens, and the lowsalinity water accumulated in the western Taiwan Strait moves to the northeast. Third, when the northeastward-moving lowsalinity water runs into the Western Kuroshio Branch off the northeastern Taiwan Island, the low-salinity water is rapidly stretched eastward, and a significant penetrating front eventually appears. Since the synoptic northeasterly wind and the Western Kuroshio Branch are dominant dynamic factors in this region during wintertime, we believe that the synoptic winterti