2017/03/02 by Li‐Chiao Wang, Fei‐Fei Jin, Chau‐Ron Wu +1 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Annual cycle #Atlantic Equatorial mode #Climate variability and models #Climatology #Ekman transport #Geology #Marine and coastal ecosystems #North Atlantic Deep Water #Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes #Oceanography #Sea surface temperature #Shoaling and schooling #Thermocline #Thermohaline circulation #Upwelling
paper · doi:10.1002/2017gl072588
openalex publication_date 2017/03/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract The annual upwelling is an important component of the equatorial Atlantic annual cycle. A simple theory is proposed using the framework of Zebiak‐Cane (ZC) ocean model for insights into the dynamics of the upwelling annual cycle. It is demonstrated that in the Atlantic equatorial region this upwelling is dominated by Ekman processing in the west, whereas in the east it is primarily owing to shoaling and deepening of the thermocline resulting from equatorial mass meridional recharge/discharge and zonal redistribution processes associated with wind‐driven equatorial ocean waves. This wind‐driven wave upwelling plays an important role in the development of the annual cycle in the sea surface temperature of the cold tongue in the eastern equatorial Atlantic.