Identification of Internal Tides in ECCO Estimates of Sea Surface Salinity in the Andaman Sea

Author:

Subrahmanyam Bulusu1ORCID,Murty V. S. N.2ORCID,Hall Sarah B.1ORCID,Trott Corinne B.3

Affiliation:

1. School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA

2. Physical Oceanography Division, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)—National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Reginal Center, Visakhapatnam 530017, India

3. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Hancock County, MS 39529, USA

Abstract

We used NASA’s high-resolution (1/48° or 2.3 km, hourly) Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) estimates of salinity at a 1 m depth from November 2011 to October 2012 to detect semi-diurnal and diurnal internal tides (ITs) in the Andaman Sea and determine their characteristics in three 2° × 2° boxes off the Myanmar coast (box A), central Andaman Sea (box B), and off the Thailand coast (box C). We also used observed salinity and temperature data for the above period at the BD12-moored buoy in the central Andaman Sea. ECCO salinity data were bandpass-filtered with 11–14 h and 22–26 h periods. Large variations in filtered ECCO salinity (~0.1 psu) in the boxes corresponded with near-surface imprints of propagating ITs. Observed data from the box B domain reveals strong salinity stratification (halocline) in the upper 40 m. Our analyses reveal that the shallow halocline affects the signatures of propagating semi-diurnal ITs reaching the surface, but diurnal ITs propagating in the halocline reach up to the surface and bring variability in ECCO salinity. In box A, the semi-diurnal IT characteristics are higher speeds (0.96 m/s) with larger wavelengths (45 km), that are closer to theoretical mode 2 estimates, but the diurnal ITs propagating in the box A domain, with a possible source over the shelf of Gulf of Martaban, attain lower values (0.45 m/s, 38 km). In box B, the propagation speed is lower (higher) for semi-diurnal (diurnal) ITs. Estimates for box C are closer to those for box A.

Funder

United States Office of Naval Research Award

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

Publisher

MDPI AG

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