The upper-ocean response to typhoons as measured at a moored acoustic Doppler current profiler -- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology,2015,33(5):1256-1264

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	LIU Ze, HOU Yijun, XIE Qiang, HU Po, LIU Yahao. The upper-ocean response to typhoons as measured at a moored acoustic Doppler current profiler[J]. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 2015, 33(5): 1256-1264

The upper-ocean response to typhoons as measured at a moored acoustic Doppler current profiler

LIU Ze^1,2, HOU Yijun¹, XIE Qiang^2,3, HU Po¹, LIU Yahao¹

1 Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China;
2 State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography (LTO), South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China;
3 Sanya Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572099, China

Abstract:

A moored acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data, satellite-derived sea surface wind data, and the chlorophyll-a concentration were used to examine the influence of typhoon events on the upper ocean in the central Luzon Strait.The data were collected between August 27 and October 6, 2011.Large changes in ocean dynamics and marine life were recorded in the upper layers over the short term during the transit of each of the three violent typhoons that passed over the region during the study period.The geostrophic flow during the period of ADCP monitoring was comparable to the Ekman flow, recently shown to be prominent in the upper layer.Based on the influence of the three typhoon events that swept the Luzon Strait or traversed Luzon Island on their way to the South China Sea, we postulated a typhoon-induced upwelling around the ADCP and found that upward isothermal displacements reached 11.8-39.0 m, which was confirmed by the sea-level anomaly data recorded at the same time.This variability in the upper ocean may play an important role in biological activity, especially in offshore deep-sea regions.

Key words: typhoons|moored ADCP data|satellite-derived data|Luzon Strait

Received: 2014-12-30 Revised: 2015-03-03

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