Advances in the study of mesoscale eddies in the Northwest Pacific
ZHANG Mengli
LAN Tian
ZHANG Chunling
HU Song
Abstract：The northwestern Pacific is the main area of material and energy exchange between the equa-torial Pacific and the subtropical Pacific.The interaction between the sea and the atmosphere is strong,and it plays a vital role in global climate change.The mesoscale vortex,which is common in all oceans,is also very active in this area.The vortex movement has an important contribution to the flow of the East China Sea Kuroshio,which in turn can affect the ecological environment of our country's coastal waters.The mesoscale eddies in the northwestern Pacific have attracted the attention of oceanographers at home and abroad.In recent years,with the wide application of satellite altimeter data and Argo buoy profile data,the research on mesoscale eddies in this region has become more and more active.This pa-per systematically summarized the research progress of mesoscale eddy detection and identification methods,characteristic statistics,internal structure,evolution mechanism and its impact on the marine ecological environment,etc.,and preliminarily discussed the future development trend of mesoscale eddy research in this sea area,which can provide a reference for in-depth related research.
Keywords：the northwest Pacificmesoscale eddymaterial transportecological environment
Publication Date：2025-04-30
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 161-168 )