Effect of mesoscale wind stress-SST coupling on the Kuroshio extension jet

Yanzhou WEI; Ronghua ZHANG; Hongna WANG; Xianbiao KANG

doi:10.1007/s00343-018-7087-8

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Effect of mesoscale wind stress-SST coupling on the Kuroshio extension jet

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- Effect of mesoscale wind stress-SST coupling on the Kuroshio extension jet
- Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology Vol. 36, Issue 3, Pages: 612-619(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
  2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  3.Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266000, China
  4.College of Air Traffic Management, Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan 618307, China
- Author bio：
  
  ZHANG Ronghua, rzhang@qdio.ac.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-018-7087-8
  CLC：
- Received：24 March 2017，
  
  Accepted：06 April 2017，
  
  Online First：11 April 2017，
  
  Published：2018-05
- Accepted：
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Yanzhou WEI, Ronghua ZHANG, Hongna WANG, et al. Effect of mesoscale wind stress-SST coupling on the Kuroshio extension jet[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(3): 612-619.
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Yanzhou WEI, Ronghua ZHANG, Hongna WANG, et al. Effect of mesoscale wind stress-SST coupling on the Kuroshio extension jet[J]. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2018, 36(3): 612-619. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-018-7087-8.

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Abstract

Effect of mesoscale wind stress-SST coupling on the Kuroshio extension jet is studied using the Regional Ocean Modeling System. The mesoscale wind stress perturbation (

) is diagnostically determined from modelled mesoscale SST perturbation (SST

) by using their empirical relationship derived from corresponding observation. From comparing two experiments with and without the

feedback

it is found that the interactively represented

-SST

coupling can modulate the kinetic energy along the Kuroshio extension jet

with little effect on the Kuroshio pathway. Similar results are also obtained in three additional sensitivity experiments

which consider half strength of the

and the momentum flux and heat flux effect induced by

respectively. That means simply taking into account the

-SST

coupling has little effect on improving the simulation of the Kuroshio Current system.

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