Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale

Linlin Zhang; Che Sun; Dunxin Hu

doi:10.1007/s00343-012-1247-z

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Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale

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- Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale
- Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale
- 海洋湖沼学报（英文） 2012年30卷第6期页码：1026-1032
- Affiliations：
  
  1. Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Author bio：
- Funds：
  
  Supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX2-YW-Q11-02), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41006114, 40890151), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2012CB417401), and the SOA Key Laboratory for Polar Science (No. KP201103)
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-012-1247-z
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- 网络首发：2012-11-17，
  
  纸质出版：2012
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Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2012,30(6):1026-1032.

Zhang, L., Sun, C. & Hu, D. Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 1026–1032 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1247-z
Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2012,30(6):1026-1032. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-012-1247-z.

Zhang, L., Sun, C. & Hu, D. Relationship between oceanic heat content and sea surface height on interannual time scale., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 30, 1026–1032 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-012-1247-z DOI：

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The relationship between heat content and sea surface height (SSH) in the global ocean on the interannual time scale is examined with satellite altimeter measurements

historical hydrography

and model assimilation outputs. Results show that correlation between altimetric SSH and heat content in the upper 700 m calculated from Ishii data is geographically nonuniform. In the tropical ocean

heat content and SSH are strongly correlated and exhibit nearly the same interannual variations. In the polar ocean

their correlation is relatively weak. Further analysis with Simple Ocean Data Assimilation outputs shows that such nonuniform distribution is not from dynamical origin but from the limited integral depth selected to calculate heat content. The integral depth of 700 m is inadequate to capture variation of the deep main thermocline in the polar region. The halosteric effect also contributes to the nonuniform pattern of correlation

because saline contraction becomes significant in the polar ocean owing to low temperature.

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