Change of Multifractal Thermal Characteristics in the Western Philippine Sea Upper Layer during Internal Wave-Soliton Propagation
Abstract
The upper layer (above 140 m depth) temperature in the western Philippine Sea near
Taiwan was sampled using a coastal monitoring buoy (CMB) with 15 attached
thermistors during July 28–August 7, 2005. The data were collected every 10 min at
1, 3, 5, 10, 15, and 20 m using the CMB sensors, and every 15 sec at 15 different
depths between 25 m and 140 m. Internal waves and solitons were identified from the
time-depth plot of the temperature field. Without the internal waves and solitons, the
power spectra, structure functions, and singular measures (representing the intermittency)
of temperature field satisfy the power law with multi-scale characteristics
at all depths. The internal waves do not change the basic characteristics of the
multifractal structure. However, the internal solitons change the power exponent of
the power spectra drastically, especially in the low wave number domain; they also
break down the power law of the structure function and increase the intermittency
parameter. The physical mechanisms causing these different effects need to be explored
further.
Description
Journal of Oceanography, Oceanographic Society of Japan, 63, 927-939.
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