Thermocline - Wikipedia
A thermocline (also known as the thermal layer or the metalimnion in lakes) is a distinct layer based on temperature within a large body of fluid (e.g. water, as in an ocean or lake; or air, e.g. an atmosphere) with a high gradient of distinct temperature differences associated with depth.
Revisiting the Thermocline Depth in the Equatorial Pacific
Jul 1, 2009 · The shallower and stronger thermocline can result in an enhanced ENSO variability because of the positive feedback among the wind variability, anomalous upwelling, and SST variability in the central-east Pacific (Yang and Zhang 2008).
Revisiting the CMIP5 Thermocline in the Equatorial Pacific and …
Nov 9, 2018 · The thermocline is the layer that separates the upper ocean, which interacts with the atmosphere, and the deep ocean. This layer has been identified, in the equatorial Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, with that where the water temperature reaches 20 °C.
What is a thermocline? - NOAA's National Ocean Service
A thermocline is the transition layer between the warmer mixed water at the surface and the cooler deep water below. It is relatively easy to tell when you have reached the thermocline in a body of water because there is a sudden change in temperature.
Thermocline dynamics in the northwestern tropical Pacific over …
Sep 15, 2020 · Analysis of thermocline dynamics in northwestern tropical Pacific since 700 ka. •. Minimal glacial-interglacial changes in thermocline temperature and salinity. •. Obliquity-paced thermocline changes linked to NPTW influences. •. Glacial thermocline deepening linked to EAWM and stronger Walker Circulation. •.
Thermocline variability in the subtropical northwestern Pacific …
Feb 15, 2023 · Thermocline conditions in the tropical western Pacific are closely linked to regional- and basin-scale hydrological variation and may have played a critical role in global climate evolution on various timescales.
Deep-reaching thermocline mixing in the equatorial pacific
May 12, 2016 · The maintenance of the equatorial Pacific thermocline relies either on high-latitude buoyancy forcing or on extratropical wind and buoyancy forcing 1, 2 at annual to inter-annual time scales, but...
Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean–continent …
Oct 19, 2022 · The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) exerts a dominant role in global climate by releasing huge amounts of water vapour and latent heat to the atmosphere and modulating upper ocean heat...
A Deep Eastern Equatorial Pacific Thermocline During the Last …
Oct 12, 2018 · This shallow thermocline in the eastern equatorial Pacific is a key component of the ocean-atmospheric connection that characterizes the tropical Pacific and El Niño-Southern Oscillation. But how was the thermocline different in the past?
Western Pacific thermocline structure and the Pacific marine ...
Feb 1, 2013 · In this paper, we aim to reconstruct the structure of the LGM thermocline in the Western Tropical Pacific using δ 18 O values of the calcite shells of the species Globigerinoides ruber, which calcifies in the surface mixed layer, and Globorotalia tumida which calcifies deeper in the water column.