Simulations of Seasonal Current Circulations and Its Variabilities Forced by Runoff from Freshwater in the Gulf of Thailand

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ผู้เขียน/บรรณาธิการ

กลุ่มสาขาการวิจัยเชิงกลยุทธ์

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รายชื่อผู้แต่ง: Aschariyaphotha N., Wongwises S.

ผู้เผยแพร่: Springer Verlag

ปีที่เผยแพร่ (ค.ศ.): 2012

Volume number: 37

Issue number: 5

หน้าแรก: 1389

หน้าสุดท้าย: 1404

จำนวนหน้า: 16

นอก: 2193-567X

eISSN: 2193-567X

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84864087747&doi=10.1007%2fs13369-012-0246-x&partnerID=40&md5=7789c23de5f5df6ed1a306a01b43ad29

ภาษา: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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บทคัดย่อ

This paper presents the seasonal climatology of currents and elevations in the Gulf of Thailand (GoT) derived from a numerical three-dimensional ocean model. A numerical three-dimensional ocean model, based on the Princeton Ocean Model (POM), with rectangular coordinates in horizontal and vertical sigma coordinates was implemented for the GoT, situated between 6ฐ to 14ฐN latitude and 99ฐ to 105ฐE longitude. The Gulf is a relatively shallow body of water with a maximum depth of 83 m and an average depth of 45 m. It was driven at the surface by monthly mean sea surface temperature, salinity and wind stress climatology. In this paper, the simulations of current circulations and sea surface elevations for each season are presented, where the winter, summer, rainy season, and end of the rainy season in Thailand are represented by the months January, May, July, and October, respectively. The simulations in the upper GoT are also described. The results show clockwise circulations during summer and rainy seasons of Thailand. They occur in the central GoT. Two experiments were designed to investigate the effects of freshwater runoff. The freshwater runoff is shown to be the important factor for generating current circulation in the upper GoT at the end of the rainy seasons. The current speed is weakened when the runoff is removed. The sea surface elevations also decrease when the freshwater runoff is removed, especially in October, where it is reduced by about 50%. ฉ 2012 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

คำสำคัญ

Curvilinear grid, Freshwater