Long term measurement of temperature variabilities off Mindanao Island by the ocean acoustic tomography英文文献.pdfVIP

Journalof Oceanography Vol. 51, pp. 327 to 339. 1995 Long-Term Measurement of Temperature Variabilities off Mindanao Islandby the Ocean Acoustic Tomography GANGYUANI, IWAONAKAO2, HIDETOSHIFuJIMORI2and ARATAKANEKOI 1Facultyof Engineering, Hiroshima University,Higashi-Hiroshima 724,Japan zJapan Marine Science and Technology Center, Yokosuka237, Japan (Received 17 October 1994; in revised form7 December 1994; accepted 8 December 1994) Oceanic variabilities off Mindanao Island, Philippines where the North Equato- rial Current branches into the Kuroshio and the Mindanao Current were measured for a period from 14 Feb.-I Jun. 1992 by the ocean acoustic tomography (OAT). From the beginning of April, the travel times of acoustic rays propagating over a horizontal distance of about 250 km, through the depth range of 80-4700 m around the underwater sound channel began to decrease, implying a warming of water. This variability was also confirmed with the results of temperature measurement at the sites where a sound source and receiver were located, The TOGA/TAO array data show that the OAT experiment was done when the 1991-1992 El Nino was at a decaying stag e and the resulting warming-up of water occurred at the western Pacific. This.study provides us a first evidence of ENSO-related variabilities detected by the OAT. 1. Introduction The ocean acoustic tomography (OAT) is a quite powerful tool which has a potential ability to visualize internal structures of the ocean in small to basin scales (Munk and Wunsch, 1979; Comuelle et al., 1989; Nakano et al.,~ 1990; Kaneko et al., 1994; Sutton et al., 1994). All