The diapycnal mixing in the upper Pacific estimated from GTSPP observations

作     者：DENG Zeng'an WEI Guanghao YU Ting WEI Hongyu KANG Linchong HAN Luyao 

作者机构：School of Marine Science and Technology Tianjin University Tianjin 300172 China National Marine Data and Information Service Tianjin 300171 China 

出 版 物：《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》 (海洋学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第35卷第1期

页      面：46-52页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0816[工学-测绘科学与技术] 

基　　金：The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.41206012 the National Basic Research Program(973Program)of China under contract No.2012CB316206 the Program for Public from State Oceanic Administration of China under contract No.201105017 

主　　题：diapycnal mixing GTSPP fine-scale parameterization Pacific 

摘      要：Diapycnal mixing （DM） in the upper 600 m of the Pacific Ocean was estimated based on the huge amount of the observations from Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme （GTSPP）, using the strain version of the finescale parameterization. It is found that DM in each season exhibits similar distribution pattern, but differs in details. The intensification of DM is related to bottom roughness, surface near-inertial energy, and proximity to the equator. The intensified DM caused by rough topography shows in the profiles near the Mendocino fracture zone in the northeast Pacific, and the heightened DM caused by wind-generated near-inertial energy appears in the westerly region of the Southern Ocean. As compared to previous estimates, the DM estimate in this work has better spatial coverage and finer resolution, and more importantly it contains the seasonal variability, Furthermore, the resulting DM dataset is gridded, rendering it suitable for modeling applications.