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Bottom-water warming in the Philippine Sea between 1990s and 2010s
Received date: 2018-01-30
Online published: 2018-12-24
Supported by
Foundation item: Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB06020102, XDB06020101);National Natural Science Foundation of China (41676015, 41776036, 41576006);Sanya and Chinese Academy of Sciences Cooperation Project(2015YD02)
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Repeated trans-Philippine-Sea hydrographic observations reveal that the bottom water in the Philippine Sea has warmed up by about 0.002~0.01℃ between 1990s and 2010s. In the West Mariana Basin and the Shikoku Basin, the colder portion of the Lower Circumpolar Deep Water (LCDW) decreased while the warmer portion increased. In the Philippine Basin, the colder portion of modified LCDW decreased while the warmer portion increased. The heat flux at the 4000-dbar isobath is 0.0413W·m-2 in the Philippine Basin and 0.0221W·m-2 in the West Mariana Basin and the Shikoku Basin. The sea level rise is 0.0621mm·yr-1 in the Philippine Basin and 0.0333mm·yr-1 in the West Mariana Basin and the Shikoku Basin due to deep ocean thermal expansion.
Key words: warming; bottom water; Philippine Sea
HUANG Caijing , XIE Qiang , CHEN Ju , SHU Yeqiang , CHEN Lingfang . Bottom-water warming in the Philippine Sea between 1990s and 2010s[J]. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2018 , 37(6) : 26 -32 . DOI: 10.11978/2018015
Fig. 1 Topography in the Philippine Sea and observation stations along transects P08 and P09. |
Fig. 2 Difference of potential temperature between 1994 and 2010 along transect P09. |
Fig. 3 Difference of potential temperature between 1996 and 2016 along transect P08. |
Fig. 4 (a) Difference of areas between 2016 and 1996 along transect P08; (b) Integrated difference of areas from the lowest temperature along transect P08图4 P08断面2016年和1996年的面积差(a)以及P08断面从最低温度开始累加的面积差(b) |
Fig. 5 (a) Difference of areas between 2010 and 1994 along transect P09; (b) Integrated difference of areas from the lowest temperature along transect P09图5 P09断面2010年和1994年的面积差(a)以及P09断面从最低温度开始累加的面积差(b) |
Fig. 6 Mean time variation rate of potential temperature, dθ/dt, along transects P08 (a) and P09 (b)图6 P08断面(a)和P09(b)断面平均的位温变化速率dθ/dt。 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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