Wei Zexun

Sea surface height and transport stream function of the South China Sea from a variable-grid global ocean circulation model

A fine-grid model (1/6°) covering the South China Sea (SCS), East China Sea and Japan/East Sea, which is embedded into a coarse-grid (3°) global model, was established to study the SCS circulation. In the present paper, we report the model-produced monthly and annual mean transport stream functions and sea surface heights(SSH) and their anomalies of the SCS. Comparison to the TOPEX/Poseidon data shows that the model-produced monthly sea surface height anomalies (SSHA) are in good agreement with altimeter measurements. Based on the results, the circulation of the SCS, especially the upper layer circulation, is discussed. In the surface layer, the western Philippine Sea water intrudes into the SCS through the Luzon Strait in autumn, winter and spring, but not in summer. However, as far as the whole water column is concerned, the water intrudes into the SCS through the Luzon Strait all the year round. This indicates that in summer the water still intrudes into the SCS in the subsurface and intermediate layers. The area near the northern continental slope of the SCS is dominated by a cyclonic circulation all the year round. The SCS Southern Anticyclonic Gyre, SE Vietnam Off-Shore Current in summertime and SCS Southern Cyclonic Gyre in wintertime are reproduced reasonably. The difference between the monthly averaged SSH and SSHA is significant, indicating the importance of the mean SSH in the SCS circulation.

Chezy型和广义Manning型摩擦关系在渤、黄、东海陆架潮汐模拟中的应用

以往对渤、黄、东海潮汐数值模拟中使用的摩擦系数大都采用不随地点变化的常数,即采用Chezy型摩擦。为了改善模拟效果,本文比较了Chezy型和广义Manning型摩擦关系,并选择与实测数据符合最好的参数,即最优参数。结果表明,采用广义Manning型摩擦系数所得结果更好。底摩擦系数在0.0009至0.0014之间,显著低于Proudman（1953）给出的0.0026,也比以往大多数已发表的值小。与原始的Manning公式不同（该公式的幂值为负数）,本研究得到的幂值为正,表明在渤、黄、东海陆架区。总体上,水体越浅摩擦系数越小。本文给出了根据最优Manning型摩擦参数模拟得出的同潮图和能通量分布图,并描述了它们的特征。