Assessing the meridional atmosphere and ocean energy transport in a varying climate  

作　　者：YANG HaiJun 

机构地区：[1]Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies,Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,School of Physics,Peking University

出　　处：《Chinese Science Bulletin》2013年第15期1737-1740,共4页

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40976007 and 41176002);the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB955201);the Special Fund for Meteorological Scientific Research in the Public Interest of China Meteorological Administration(GYHY201006022)

摘　　要：Assessing the meridional atmosphere and ocean energy transport is one of the most classical problems in climate research.The meridional energy transport plays a critical role in maintaining the equilibrium of the earth system.Although the principle to calculate the meridional energy transport is simple,many fundamental questions remain unsolved.For example,what are the intrinsic mechanisms to maintain the hemispherically antisymmetric structure in the total energy transport? How on earth does the meridional energy transport partition between the atmosphere and ocean and,is there really a so-called "Bjerknes compensation" relationship between them? This relationship would provide us deep insight into the coupling mechanisms between the ocean and atmosphere in global scale.In this review we try to come out some important problems that are deserved in-depth investigations in current climate studies.Assessing the meridional atmosphere and ocean energy transport is one of the most classical problems in climate research. The meridional energy transport plays a critical role in maintaining the equilibrium of the earth system. Although the principle to cal- culate the meridional energy transport is simple, many fundamental questions remain unsolved. For example, what are the intrin- sic mechanisms to maintain the hemispherically antisymmetric structure in the total energy transport？ How on earth does the me- ridional energy transport partition between the atmosphere and ocean and, is there really a so-called ＂Bjerknes compensation＂ relationship between them？ This relationship would provide us deep insight into the coupling mechanisms between the ocean and atmosphere in global scale. In this review we try to come out some important problems that are deserved in-depth investigations in current climate studies.

关 键 词：能源运输 海洋 大气 气候 评估 地球系统 耦合机制 对称结构 

分 类 号：P461.2[天文地球—大气科学及气象学]