Global Upper Ocean Heat Content And Climate Variability

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Global Upper Ocean Heat Content And Climate VariabilityISBN13:9781502972446ISBN10:1502972441Author:Naval Postgraduate School (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - Observational Data From The Global Temperature And Salinity Profile Program (Gtspp) Were Used To Calculate The Upper Ocean Heat Content (Ohc) Anomaly The Thickness Of The Upper Layer Is Taken As 300 M For The Pacificatlantic Ocean And 150 M For The Indian Ocean Since The Indian Ocean Has Shallower Thermoclines First, The Optimal Spectral Decomposition (Osd) Scheme Was Used To Build Up Monthly Synoptic Temperature And Salinity Data Set For January 1990 To December 2009 On 1O 1O Grids And The Same 33 Vertical Levels As The World Ocean Atlas Then, The Monthly Varying Upper Layer Ohc Field (H) Was Obtained Second, A Composite Analysis Was Conducted To Obtain The Total-Time Mean Ohc Field ( H ) And The Monthly Mean Ohc Variability (H% ), Which Is Found An Order Of Magnitude Smaller Than H Third, An Empirical Orthogonal Function (Eof) Method Is Conducted On The Residue Data ( H ), Deviating From H +H%, In Order To Obtain Interannual Variations Of The Ohc Fields For The Three Oceans In The Pacific Ocean, The First Two Eof Modes Account For 51 46% And 13 71% Of The Variance, Representing Canonical El Ninola Nina (Eof-1) And Pseudo El Ninola Nina (I E , El Nino Modoki) (Eof-2) Events In The Indian Ocean, The First Two Eof Modes Account For 24 27% And 20 94% Of The Variance, Representing Basin-Scale Coolingwarming (Eof-1) And Indian Ocean Dipole (Eof-2) Events In The Atlantic Ocean, The First Eof Mode Accounts For 49 26% Of The Variance, Representing A Basin-Scale Coolingwarming (Eof-1) Event The Second Eof Mode Accounts For 8 83% Of The Variance Different From The Pacific And Indian Oceans, There Is No Zonal Dipole Mode In The Tropical Atlantic Ocean Fourth, Evident Lag Correlation Coefficients Are Found Between The First Principal Component Of The Pacific Ocean And The Southern Oscillation Index With A Maximum Correlation Coefficient (0 68) At 1-Month Lead Of The Eof-1 And Between The Second Principal Component Of The Indian Ocean And The Dipole Mode Index With Maximum 3 Values (Around 0 53) At 1-2 Month Advance Of The Eof-2 It Implies That Ohc Anomaly Contains Climate Variability Signals Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2014-10-26Weight:0.27 lbsDimensions:0.09'' H x 11.02'' L x 8.5'' WNumber of Pages:42Language:English

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