A new climatology of the Okhotsk Sea derived from the FERHRI database
A new climatology of the Okhotsk Sea derived from the FERHRI database
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来自 FERHRI 数据库的鄂霍次克海新气候学
DOI:
10.1007/s10872-012-0147-3
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发表时间:
2012
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T. Ono and H. Mitsudera
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作者:
Uehara;H.;A.A. Kruts;Y.N. Volkov;T. Nakamura;T. Ono and H. Mitsudera
This paper introduces a new hydrographic climatology of the Okhotsk Sea; this climatology was constructed from the Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute (FERHRI) database. The FERHRI database has a volume of data three to five times larger than the data used in previous studies because unpublished Russian observation data have been included in the FERHRI database. After removing erroneous data from the database by pertinent quality control methods, the climatology for 1/4° × 1/4° grids is produced by applying objective analysis procedures. Features similar to those in previous studies are seen in the intermediate layers in the Okhotsk Sea, whereas our climatology provides values that fill in gaps in previous climatologies. It is obvious from the monthly climatologies that temperature and salinity distributions evolve in accordance with seasonal variations in the Eastern Sakhalin Current and inflow from the North Pacific. We also reconstructed climatologies for the winter mixed layer and dense shelf water from data obtained from the temperature minimum waters identified as the remnants of these two layers. Free access to the 1° × 1° versions of all climatologies constructed in this study is available through the website.