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Warming trend in northern East China Sea in recent four decades

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Global warming has become a notable trend especially since an abrupt climate change in 1976. Response of the East China Sea (ECS) to the global warming trend, however, is not well understood because of sparse long-term observation. In this paper, hydrographic observation data of 1957-1996 are collected and reviewed to study climatological variability in northern ECS. Significant wanning trends are found in both summer and winter. In summer, the average SST is about 0.46℃ higher during the period of 1977-1996 than that of 1957-1976, and the Taiwan Warm Current Water (TWCW) was strengthened. In winter, despite of the cooling effect in the coastal areas adjacent to the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Estuary (CRE), the average SST increase was about 0.53℃ during the same period. The causes of this SST warming up in summer are different from in winter. The warming trend and intensification of the TWCW in summer were primarily influenced by the strengthening of the Kuroshio transport, while the warming in winter was mainly induced by the variability of the climate system.

global warmingclimate changeEast China Seasea surface temperaturelong-term variability

TANG Xiaohui、WANG Fan、CHEN Yongli、LI Mingkui

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Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China

Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China

Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves (KLOCAW), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China

国家重点基础研究发展规划(973计划)Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

2006CB403601KZCX2-YW-Q11-02

2009

海洋湖沼学报(英文版)
中国海洋湖沼学会

海洋湖沼学报(英文版)

CSTPCDCSCDSCI
影响因子:0.386
ISSN:2096-5508
年,卷(期):2009.27(2)
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