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    Interdecadal Variations in the Alaska Gyre

    Source: Journal of Physical Oceanography:;1995:;Volume( 025 ):;issue: 010::page 2242
    Author:
    Lagerloef, Gary S. E.
    DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1995)025<2242:IVITAG>2.0.CO;2
    Publisher: American Meteorological Society
    Abstract: Climatic dynamic topography variations in the Alaska gyre during the period 1968?1990 are described with an objective analysis of more than 12000 STD and XBT stations, and COADS wind stress data. Interannual dynamic height and SST variations were correlated and were consistent with recently described large-scale climatic shifts in the North Pacific. The gyre was cantered more to the east circulation appeared stronger, and SST was lower during the early to mid-1970s than during the 1980s. The Aleutian low (NP and PNA indices) intensified during the interim, but the response did not appear as a gyre spinup. Instead, the associated wind stress anomalies forced a slowly varying dynamic height anomaly across the eastern and northern part of the gyre through Ekman convergence, which had the effect of displacing the gyre's low somewhat to the WSW in the 1980s. The wind curl spectrum was white, and the slow oceanic response was modelled as stochastic-forced climate variability with a simple first-order Markov autoregression process. Forcing was assumed to be Ekman pumping of the pycnocline, and the damping coefficient was estimated from the data to be ?1 yr?1. A hindcast with observed winds gave estimated dynamic height patterns similar to those observed, with a canonical correlation of 0.79 at 99% confidence. This response was weak in the western half of the gyre, where slow baroclinic variability may have been influenced by long Rossby wave propagation. A simple autoregression simulation using artificial white noise forcing shows the evolution of decadal Variations similar in nature to those observed. This result, along with the low frequency correlation between dynamic height and SST, suggests that the upper-ocean climatic variability in this region is primarily wind forced.
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    contributor authorLagerloef, Gary S. E.
    date accessioned2017-06-09T14:51:42Z
    date available2017-06-09T14:51:42Z
    date copyright1995/10/01
    date issued1995
    identifier issn0022-3670
    identifier otherams-28395.pdf
    identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4165506
    description abstractClimatic dynamic topography variations in the Alaska gyre during the period 1968?1990 are described with an objective analysis of more than 12000 STD and XBT stations, and COADS wind stress data. Interannual dynamic height and SST variations were correlated and were consistent with recently described large-scale climatic shifts in the North Pacific. The gyre was cantered more to the east circulation appeared stronger, and SST was lower during the early to mid-1970s than during the 1980s. The Aleutian low (NP and PNA indices) intensified during the interim, but the response did not appear as a gyre spinup. Instead, the associated wind stress anomalies forced a slowly varying dynamic height anomaly across the eastern and northern part of the gyre through Ekman convergence, which had the effect of displacing the gyre's low somewhat to the WSW in the 1980s. The wind curl spectrum was white, and the slow oceanic response was modelled as stochastic-forced climate variability with a simple first-order Markov autoregression process. Forcing was assumed to be Ekman pumping of the pycnocline, and the damping coefficient was estimated from the data to be ?1 yr?1. A hindcast with observed winds gave estimated dynamic height patterns similar to those observed, with a canonical correlation of 0.79 at 99% confidence. This response was weak in the western half of the gyre, where slow baroclinic variability may have been influenced by long Rossby wave propagation. A simple autoregression simulation using artificial white noise forcing shows the evolution of decadal Variations similar in nature to those observed. This result, along with the low frequency correlation between dynamic height and SST, suggests that the upper-ocean climatic variability in this region is primarily wind forced.
    publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
    titleInterdecadal Variations in the Alaska Gyre
    typeJournal Paper
    journal volume25
    journal issue10
    journal titleJournal of Physical Oceanography
    identifier doi10.1175/1520-0485(1995)025<2242:IVITAG>2.0.CO;2
    journal fristpage2242
    journal lastpage2258
    treeJournal of Physical Oceanography:;1995:;Volume( 025 ):;issue: 010
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