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| Summer Monsoon Impacts on Chlorophyll-a Concentration in the Middle of the South China Sea: Climatological Mean and Annual Variability |
| YANG Yuan-Jian,XIAN Tao,SUN Liang,FU Yun-Fei |
| 1. Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences and Satellite Remote Sensing of Anhui Province, Anhui Institute of Meteorological Sci-ences, Hefei 230031, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of At-mospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;3. Laboratory of Atmospheric Observation and Climatological Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Sci-ence and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of At-mospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; 3. Laboratory of Atmospheric Observation and Climatological Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Sci-ence and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;1. Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences and Satellite Remote Sensing of Anhui Province, Anhui Institute of Meteorological Sci-ences, Hefei 230031, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of At-mospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China; 3. Laboratory of Atmospheric Observation and Climatological Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Sci-ence and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China |
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Abstract Climatological mean and annual variations of Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) distribution, sea surface wind (SSW), and sea surface temperature (SST) from 1998 to 2008 were analyzed in the middle of the South China Sea (SCS), focusing on the typical region off the east coast of Vietnam (8.5-14°N, 109.5-114°E). Based on remote sensing data and SCS summer monsoon index (SCSSMI) data, high Chl-a concentrations in the middle of the SCS in the southwest summer monsoon season (June-Septem-ber) may be related to strong Ekman pumping and strong wind stress. The maximum of the monthly averaged climatological Chl-a in the summer appeared in August. According to the annual variation, there was a significant negative correlation (r = -0.42) between the SCSSMI and SST, a strongly positive correlation (r=0.61) between the SCSSMI and Chl-a, and a strongly negative correlation (r = -0.74) between the SST and Chl-a in the typical region off the east coast of Vietnam during 1998-2008. Due to the El Ni?o event specifically, the phenomena of a low Chl-a concentration, high SST and weak SCSSMI were extremely predominant in the summer of 1998. These relationships imply that the SCSSMI associated with the SST could be used to predict the annual variability of summer Chl-a in the SCS.
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Received: 08 June 2011
Revised: 18 June 2011
Accepted: 12 July 2011
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