East Sea mixed layer depth from Argo float profiles

Title
East Sea mixed layer depth from Argo float profiles
Author(s)
김은진; 장찬주
KIOST Author(s)
Kim, Eun Jin(김은진)Jang, Chan Joo(장찬주)
Alternative Author(s)
김은진; 장찬주
Publication Year
2009-11-05
Abstract
Since the year 2000, the number of Argo floats in the world oceans has been increasing year by year and more than 3,000 floats are now operating in the world oceans. Argo floats measure temperature and salinity, giving an unprecedented seasonally-unbiased data set for mixed layer depth (MLD) estimation. For the East Sea, Argo floats provide 8063 temperature profiles since 2000 through 2008, mostly covering southern East Sea south of the subpolar front (SPF). We, in thisstudy, present seasonal variation of East Sea MLD inferred from the Argo temperature profiles. We defined MLD as the depth at which the temperature is larger than the surface by 0.2℃℃. The East Sea MLD from Argo floats revealed strong seasonal variability, with shallower (less than 20 m) in summer and deeper (more than 200 m) in winter. It also indentified some distinct spatial patterns including shallower MLD near the SPF, deeper MLD over the Ulleung Warm eddy in winter.
URI
https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/29177
Bibliographic Citation
해양학회 추계학술발표대회, pp.122, 2009
Publisher
해양학회
Type
Conference
Language
English
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