Decomposing the meridional heat transport in the climate system

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Haijun Yang, Qing Li, Kun Wang, Yu Sun, Daoxun Sun]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Climate Dynamics, 44/9-10(2015-05-01), 2751-2768
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 0 |a Decomposing the meridional heat transport in the climate system  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Haijun Yang, Qing Li, Kun Wang, Yu Sun, Daoxun Sun] 
520 3 |a The meridional heat transport (MHT) in the climate system is investigated using a state-of-the-art coupled climate model (CESM1.0). This work decomposes the MHT and studies their physics in detail. The meridional ocean heat transport (OHT) can be decomposed into the contributions from the Euler mean circulation, bolus circulation, sub-mesoscale circulation and dissipation. The Euler mean heat transport dominates the total OHT in most latitudes, except that in the Southern Ocean (40-50°S) where the OHT is determined by the eddy-induced circulation and dissipation. In the Indo-Pacific the OHT is fulfilled by the wind-driven circulation, which dominates the total global OHT in the tropics. In the Atlantic the OHT is carried by both the wind-driven circulation and the thermohaline circulation, and the latter dominates the total OHT in the mid-high latitudes. The meridional atmosphere heat transport consists of the dry static energy (DSE) and latent energy (LE) transport. In the tropics the LE transport is equatorward and compensates partially the poleward DSE transport. In the extratropics, the LE and DSE are poleward and reinforce one another, both of which are dominated by the eddy components. The LE transport can be considered as the "joint air-sea mode” since the ocean controls the moisture supply. It can be also precisely obtained from the evaporation minus precipitation over the ocean and thus this work quantifies the individual ocean basin contributions to the LE transport. 
540 |a The Author(s), 2014 
690 7 |a Meridional heat transport  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Coupled climate model  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Oceanic heat transport  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Atmospheric heat transport  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Decomposition  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Yang  |D Haijun  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Li  |D Qing  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Wang  |D Kun  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Sun  |D Yu  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Sun  |D Daoxun  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
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950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Li  |D Qing  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Wang  |D Kun  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Sun  |D Yu  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Sun  |D Daoxun  |u Laboratory for Climate and Ocean-Atmosphere Studies (LaCOAS), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, 209 Chengfu Road, 100871, Beijing, China  |4 aut 
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