Heat budget responses of the eastern China seas to global warming in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model

Tian, Di; Su, Jian; Zhou, Feng; Mayer, Bernhard; Sein, Dmitry V.; Zhang, Han; Huang, Daji; Pohlmann, Thomas

doi:10.3354/cr01579

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“…The warming trend caused by the weakened upwelling can affect an extensive warming area in the ECS‐Kuroshio region, which may affect the future temperature trend. A previous study (Hu et al., 2015) predicted that the Kuroshio, at its origin, will be weakened by approximately 10% in 2050–2100 and that the global ocean heat content will continue to increase at the end of the 21st century (Cheng et al., 2019; Seo et al., 2014; Tian et al., 2019). Moreover, the SST warming trend of the study area during 2014–2021 already provides evidence of shape warming (0.62°C decade −1 , Figure S10 in Supporting Information ), which is most likely induced by weakened upwelling and global rewarming.…”

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The Weakened Upwelling at the Upstream Kuroshio in the East China Sea Induced Extensive Sea Surface Warming

Wei

Ding

Huang

et al. 2023

Geophysical Research Letters

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The interannual sea surface temperature trend of the Kuroshio in the East China Sea (ECS‐Kuroshio) is significantly different from that of the ECS‐shelf region. Based on 33 years (1982–2014) of observational temperature data in the ECS, the upstream ECS‐Kuroshio, as an upwelling region, shows an opposite temperature trend to the downstream ECS‐Kuroshio, creating a horizontal “dipole” structure. Vertical heat transport modulated by upwelling variability in the upstream ECS‐Kuroshio can be the main factor for the distinct temperature trend in the upstream ECS‐Kuroshio. This upstream trend can expand to downstream areas through horizontal advections. As a result, the weakened upwelling triggered a significant warming trend in the entire upper layer of the ECS‐Kuroshio during the warming period (1999–2014). The weakening trend of upwelling and global rewarming conditions may lead to robust warming in the Kuroshio region in the middle of this century.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Weakened Upwelling at the Upstream Kuroshio in the East China Sea Induced Extensive Sea Surface Warming

Wei

Ding

Huang

et al. 2023

Geophysical Research Letters

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“…The MPIOM has 40 uneven vertical levels with 9 levels above 104 m, including the major tidal components (Thomas et al., 2001) and river runoffs (Hagemann & Dümenil, 1998). The atmospheric model has about 55 km horizontal resolutions (approximately 0.5°), which is high enough to resolve the scale of the regional circulation and the monsoon over the ECS (Hao et al., 2022; Tian et al., 2019).…”

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“…The simulations of coupled models had been validated in the studies of the cross‐shelf volume transports and heat budget response in the ECS to global warming, which show the monsoon and ocean circulation has been simulated well (Hao et al., 2022; Tian et al., 2019). Multiple data sets not assimilated by the BRAN are used to validate the BRAN reanalysis, including the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) sea surface salinity (SSS) v5.0 (1/4° grids; Fore et al., 2016) and the Ocean Science Database, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (OSD‐IOCAS; 1° grids).…”

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Cross‐Shelf Carbon Transport in the East China Sea and Its Future Trend Under Global Warming

Hao,

Yuan,

et al. 2024

JGR Oceans

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The cross‐shelf carbon transports across a section along the 100 m isobath from Taiwan to Cheju are estimated based on carbon concentration observations and ocean currents simulated by a regionally zoomed ocean‐atmosphere coupled model. Results show that the net cross‐shelf particulate organic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, and dissolved inorganic carbon transports are in the offshore direction at 1.81 ± 0.22, 51.8 ± 2.85, and 783 ± 58.9 TgC yr−1, respectively, which are high in spring and summer and low in winter and fall following the seasonality of the offshore volume transport. The carbon is transported into the East China Sea (ECS) mainly by the Taiwan Warm Current and the Yellow Sea Warm Current, whereas they are carried out of the ECS mainly by the East China Sea Current extension and the recirculation north of Taiwan. Assuming steady biological activity, future net total organic carbon transports are projected to increase by 5%∼19% offshore at the end of the 21st century, with the maximum increase in winter, in a high greenhouse gas emission scenario of RCP8.5. The increased carbon transports are due to the increased offshore volume transport, transferring more carbon‐rich coastal water away from the shelf in the warming future than at present. The results quantify cross‐shelf carbon burial in the ECS in the background of global warming.

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Effects of dissolved oxygen and nutrients from the Kuroshio on hypoxia off the Changjiang River estuary

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Heat budget responses of the eastern China seas to global warming in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model

Cited by 5 publications

References 63 publications

The Weakened Upwelling at the Upstream Kuroshio in the East China Sea Induced Extensive Sea Surface Warming

The Weakened Upwelling at the Upstream Kuroshio in the East China Sea Induced Extensive Sea Surface Warming

Cross‐Shelf Carbon Transport in the East China Sea and Its Future Trend Under Global Warming

Effects of dissolved oxygen and nutrients from the Kuroshio on hypoxia off the Changjiang River estuary

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