Temporal-spatial oceanic variation in relation with the three typical Kuroshio paths south of Japan  

作　　者：Xiaobo Wu Yanling Zhao Guijun Han Wei Li Qi Shao Lige Cao Chaoliang Li 

机构地区：[1]School of Marine Science and Technology,Tianjin University,Tianjin 300072,China [2]The PLA 31010 Units,Beijing 100081,China [3]Tianjin Key Laboratory for Oceanic Meteorology,Tianjin 300074,China

出　　处：《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》2022年第2期15-25,共11页海洋学报（英文版）

基　　金：The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.41876014.

摘　　要：Empirical orthogonal function(EOF)analysis was applied to a 50-year long time series of monthly mean positions of the Kuroshio path south of Japan from a regional reanalysis.Three leading EOF modes characterize the contributions from three typical paths of the Kuroshio meander:the typical large meander path,the offshore nonlarge meander path,and the nearshore non-large meander path,respectively.Accordingly,the spatial variation characteristics of oceanic anomaly fields can be depicted by their regression fields upon the associated three leading principal components(PCs),which are well-matched with the results of composite analysis corresponding to each period of the three typical Kuroshio paths.A new index for the typical large meander is defined by using the second leading PC,which is highly correlated with the Kushimoto-Uragami index.Spectral analysis of this new index series shows variability of the Kuroshio path south of Japan at time scales of about 7–8 years and 20 years.

关 键 词：Kuroshio path south of Japan empirical orthogonal function analysis temporal-spatial oceanic variation large meander index 

分 类 号：P731.27[天文地球—海洋科学]