Anomalous pattern of ocean heat content during different phases of the solar cycle in the tropical Pacific

作     者：HUO Wen-Juan XIAO Zi-Niu HUO Wen-Juan;XIAO Zi-Niu

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China College of Earth Science University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China 

出 版 物：《Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters》 (大气和海洋科学快报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第10卷第1期

页      面：9-16页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Basic Research Program of China[grant number 2012CB957804] the External Cooperation Program of Bureau of International Co-operation,Chinese Academy of Sciences[grant number 134111KYSB20150016] 

主　　题：Ocean heat content anomaly total solar irradiance solar cycle tropical Pacific 

摘      要：Solar radiation is a forcing of the climate system with a quasi-11-year *** a quasi-period forcing,the influence of the phase of the solar cycle on the ocean system is an interesting topic of *** this paper,the authors investigate a particular feature,the ocean heat content（OHC）anomaly,in different phases of the total solar irradiance（TSI） *** results show that almost opposite spatial patterns appear in the tropical Pacific during the ascending and declining phases of the TSI *** analysis reveals the presence of the quasi-decadal（11-year） solar signal in the SST,OHC and surface zonal wind anomaly field over the tropical Pacific with a high level of statistical confidence（95%）.It is noted that the maximum centers of the ocean temperature anomaly are trapped in the upper ocean above the main pycnocline,in which the variations of OHC are related closely with zonal wind and ocean currents.