JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017

講演情報

[EE] 口頭発表

セッション記号 A (大気水圏科学) » A-CG 大気水圏科学複合領域・一般

[A-CG45] [EE] 熱帯インド洋・太平洋におけるマルチスケール大気海洋相互作用

2017年5月20日(土) 09:00 〜 10:30 302 (国際会議場 3F)

コンビーナ:名倉 元樹((独) 海洋研究開発機構)、H Annamalai(University of Hawaii at Manoa)、清木 亜矢子(海洋研究開発機構)、今田 由紀子(気象庁気象研究所)、座長:名倉 元樹(海洋研究開発機構)、座長:清木 亜矢子(海洋研究開発機構)

10:00 〜 10:15

[ACG45-05] Interannual and decadal variability of the sea surface salinity dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean

*Yan DU1 (1.South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

キーワード:S-IOD, SST-precipitation-SSS feedback, tropical Indian Ocean, Argo

Ocean salinity is a natural freshwater tracer in the global hydrological cycle and its changes represent large-scale ocean-atmosphere coupled climate signals such as the El Ni?o/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Studies of ocean salinity are much less than those of temperature since salinity observations are more sparse. Based on the ten years sea surface salinity (SSS) data from Argo, we identified a salinity dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean, termed S-IOD: a pattern of interannual SSS variability with anomalously low-salinity in the central equatorial and high-salinity in the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean (IO). The S-IOD matures in November-December, lagging the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) mode derived from sea surface temperature (SST) by two months. For the period of observations, the S-IOD persists longer than the IOD, until the following September-October. Oscillations of the two S-IOD poles are governed by different processes. Ocean advection associated with equatorial current variability dominates the SSS anomalies of the northern pole, while surface freshwater flux variability plays a key role in the SSS anomalies of the southern pole, where anomalous precipitation is sustained by preformed sea surface temperature anomalies. The S-IOD concurs with the strong IOD, reflecting an ocean-atmosphere coupling through the SST-precipitation-SSS feedback.