Dynamic Characteristics of a Submesoscale Front and Associated Heat Fluxes Over the Northeastern South China Sea Shelf
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Abstract
Submesoscale fronts, which are ubiquitous phenomena in the ocean, contribute considerably to oceanic material transports and energy cascades because of their ageostrophy. The dynamic characteristics of a thermal front over the northeastern continental shelf of the South China Sea (SCS) in winter are investigated using a two-layer nested high-resolution regional ocean model system. Results show that a strong thermal front is generated over the slope of the SCS area in winter with a cross-front temperature difference of 5°C and a spatial scale of 6 km. The calculated Rossby number reaches O(1) at the front and is accompanied by strong secondary circulation; the vertical velocity can reach 40 m d−1. The calculated barotropic and baroclinic energy conversion reveals that background kinetic and potential energies provide the energy generation of a submesoscale front. Meanwhile, the submesoscale front induces strong horizontal and vertical heat fluxes of up to 8×105 and 1.7×103 W m−2, respectively. The heat flux promotes not only the cross-shelf exchange of heat in the horizontal direction but also the re-stratification of seawater in the vertical direction.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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