Interannual Variability of the Wind-Wave Regime Parameters in the Black Sea

P. N. Lishaev✉, V. V. Knysh, G. K. Korotaev

Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS, Sevastopol, Russian Federation

✉ e-mail: pavellish@mail.ru

Abstract

Purpose. The investigation is aimed at increasing accuracy of the temperature field reconstruction in the Black Sea upper layer. For this purpose, satellite observations of the sea surface temperature and the three-dimensional fields of temperature (in the 50–500 m layer) and salinity (in the 2.5–500 m layer) pseudo-measurements, previously calculated by the altimetry and the Argo floats data, were jointly assimilated in the Marine Hydrophysical Institute model.

Methods and Results. Assimilation of the sea surface temperature satellite observations is the most effective instrument in case the discrepancies between the sea surface and the model temperatures are extrapolated over the upper mixed layer depth up to its lower boundary. Having been analyzed, the temperature profiles resulted from the forecast calculation for 2012 and from the Argo float measurements made it possible to obtain a simple criterion (bound to the model grid) for determining the upper mixed layer depth, namely the horizon on which the temperature gradient was less or equal to ≤ 0.017 °C/m. Within the upper mixed layer depth, the nudging procedure of satellite temperature measurements with the selected relaxation factor and the measurement errors taken into account was used in the heat transfer equation. The temperature and salinity pseudo-measurements were assimilated in the model by the previously proposed adaptive statistics method. To test the results of the sea surface temperature assimilation, the Black Sea hydrophysical fields were reanalyzed for 2012. The winter-spring period (January – April, December) is characterized by the high upper mixed layer depths, well reproducible by the Pacanowski – Philander parameterization, and also by the low values (as compared to the measured ones) of the basin-averaged monthly mean square deviations of the simulated temperature fields. The increased mean square deviations in July – September are explained by absence of the upper mixed layer in the temperature profiles measured by the Argo floats that is not reproduced by the Pacanowski – Philander parameterization.

Conclusions. The algorithm for assimilating the sea surface temperature together with the profiles of the temperature and salinity pseudo-measurements reconstructed from the altimetry data was realized. Application of the upper mixed layer depths estimated by the temperature vertical profiles made it possible to correct effectively the model temperature by the satellite-derived sea surface temperature, especially for a winter-spring period. It permitted to reconstruct the temperature fields in the sea upper layer for 2012 with acceptable accuracy.

Keywords

Black Sea, satellite sea surface temperature, depth of the upper mixed layer, altimetry, assimilation

Acknowledgements

The investigation was carried out within the framework of the state task on theme No. 0827-2019-0002 “Development of the methods of operational oceanology based on inter-disciplinary studies of the marine environment formation and evolution processes, and mathematical modeling using the data of remote and direct measurements”.

Original russian text

Original Russian Text © P. N. Lishaev, V. V. Knysh, G. K. Korotaev, 2020, published in MORSKOY GIDROFIZICHESKIY ZHURNAL, Vol. 36, Iss. 5, pp. 485–500 (2020)

For citation

Lishaev, P.N., Knysh, V.V. and Korotaev, G.K., 2020. Reconstructing the Black Sea Hydrophysical Fields Including Assimilation of the Sea Surface Temperature, and the Temperature and Salinity Pseudo-Measurements in the Model. Physical Oceanography, 27(5), pp. 445-459. doi:10.22449/1573-160X-2020-5-445-459

DOI

10.22449/1573-160X-2020-5-445-459

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