Long-term sea surface salinity (SSS) in the East China Sea (ECS) was estimated based on Ocean Color Climate Change Initiative (OC-CCI) data using machine learning during the summer season (June to September) from 1997 to 2021. Changjiang diluted wate...
In response to the demand for high-precision acoustic support under the condition of limited data, this study utilized high-resolution reanalysis data and in situ observation data to extract the Kuroshio Extension Front (KEF) section through front-li...
Ocean fronts are central to upper-ocean dynamics and ecosystem processes, yet recognizing their evolutionary trends from satellite data remains challenging. We present a 3D U-Net-based multi-task framework that jointly performs ocean-front detection...
As one of the widespread physical phenomena in the global ocean system, the ocean front has a very important influence on underwater sound propagation. Firstly, this paper systematically reviews several methods for the detection of ocean fronts in th...
This paper provides a concise review of the remote sensing of ocean fronts in marine ecology and fisheries, with a particular focus on the most popular front detection algorithms and techniques, including those proposed by Canny, Cayula and Cornillon...
The ocean front has a non-negligible role in global ocean–atmosphere interactions, marine fishery production, and the marine military. Hence, obtaining the positions of the ocean front is crucial in oceanic research. At present, the positioning...
The Southern Ocean front (SOF) is an important factor that affects the heat exchange and material transport of the Southern Ocean. In the past two decades, with the advancements in satellite remote-sensing technology, the study of the spatio-temporal...
This review will serve as an entry point for international researchers who would like to tap into the vast scientific potential of Chinese-language literature on oceanic fronts. We focused on observational physical oceanography studies of marine fron...
As a mesoscale phenomenon of the ocean, the ocean front can directly affect the structural characteristics of sound speed profiles and further affect the acoustic propagation characteristics of the sea area. In this paper, we use the fuzzy C-means (F...
Oceanic fronts delineate the boundaries between distinct water masses within the ocean, typically marked by shifts in weather patterns and the generation of oceanic circulation. These fronts are identified in research on intelligent oceanic front det...
As one of the most common mesoscale phenomena in the ocean, the ocean front is defined as a narrow transition zone between two water masses with obviously different properties. In this study, we proposed an ocean front reconstruction method based on...
At present, some shortcomings of the research on coupling modeling of the oceanic front–sound field may need attention: (1) Most of the acoustic propagation simulation is based on ideal front models, but the application of investigated marine d...
This study proposes a method to detect ocean fronts from in situ temperature and density glider measurements. This method is applied to data collected along the CalCOFI Line 90, south of the California Current System (CCS), over the 2006–2013 p...
The application of remote sensing observations in estimating ocean sub-surface temperatures has been widely adopted. Machine learning-based methods in particular are gaining more and more interest. While there is promising relevant progress, most tem...
We present large eddy simulations of a midlatitude open ocean front using a modified state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics code. We investigate the energy and information fluxes at the submesoscale/small-scale range in the absence of any atmo...
Oceanic fronts involved by ocean currents led to strong gradients of temperature, density and salinity, which have significant effects on underwater sound propagation. This paper focuses on the impact of the oceanic front on three-dimensional underwa...
The northern South China Sea has abundant frontal systems near coastal and island regions, which play crucial roles in regional ocean dynamics and ecosystem. While previous studies have established preliminary understanding of their spatial distribut...
Typhoons can significantly alter ocean hydrodynamic processes through their powerful external forces, greatly affecting marine biogeochemistry and ocean productivity. However, the specific impacts of typhoons with different tracks on coastal dynamics...
Monthly climatology data for salinity fronts in the South Atlantic have been created from satellite SMOS sea surface salinity (SSS) measurements taken from 2011–2019, processed at the Barcelona Expert Center of Remote Sensing (BEC), and provide...
Marine hydrological elements are of vital importance in marine surveys. The evolution of these elements can have a profound effect on the relationship between human activities and marine hydrology. Therefore, the detection and explanation of the evol...
Ocean fronts, widespread across the global ocean, cause abrupt shifts in physical properties such as temperature, salinity, and sound speed, significantly affecting underwater acoustic communication and detection. While past research has concentrated...
The understanding of the physical drivers of sea level trend is crucial on global and regional scales. In particular, little is known about the sea level trend in the South Atlantic Ocean in comparison with other parts of the world. In this work, we...
Monitoring front dynamics is essential for studying the ocean’s physical and biogeochemical processes. However, the diurnal displacement of fronts remains unclear because of limited in situ observations. Using the hourly satellite imageries from the...
Surface oceanic fronts are regions characterized by high biological activity. Here, Sea Surface Temperature (SST) fronts are analyzed for the period 2003–2019 using the Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) SST product in northern Patagonia,...
Recent studies demonstrate that energetic sub-mesoscale fronts (10–50 km width) extend in the ocean interior, driving large vertical velocities and associated fluxes. However, diagnosing the dynamics of these deep-reaching fronts from in situ o...
Due to its dire impacts on marine life, public health, and socio-economic services, oil spills require an immediate response. Effective action starts with good knowledge of the ocean dynamics and circulation, from which Lagrangian methods derive key...
High-resolution (2 km) high-frequency (hourly) SST data from 2015 to 2021 provided by the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) onboard the Japanese Himawari-8 geostationary satellite were used to study spatial and temporal variability of the China Coastal...
The Subtropical Front (STF) plays a key role in the ecology of Chilean jack mackerel Trachurus murphyi. Nonetheless, there are few remote sensing studies of the STF in the open Southeast Pacific, and almost all of them have been conducted by satellit...
High-resolution (2 km), high-frequency (hourly) SST data of the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) flown onboard the Japanese Himawari-8 geostationary satellite were used to derive the monthly climatology of temperature fronts in the South China Sea. The...
Cold fronts are meteorological phenomena that impact the northern Gulf of Mexico, mostly between the fall and spring seasons. On average, they pass the region every 3–7 days, with a duration ranging between 24 and 74 h. In the present study, a...
Atmospheric cold front-generated waves play an important role in the air–sea interaction and coastal water and sediment transports. In-situ observations from two offshore stations are used to investigate variations of directional waves in the c...
Geryon longipes is a crab species that inhabits the muddy bottoms of the middle and lower slopes, as well as bathyal bottoms ranging from 400 to 2000 m in depth. To assess its molecular diversity, a fragment of 572 bp of the COI (Cytochrome Oxidase s...
Validation of satellite-based retrieval of ocean parameters like Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) is commonly done via statistical comparison with in situ measurements. Because in situ observations derived from coastal/tro...
Sea surface temperature (SST) fronts were analyzed in the Levantine Basin of the Mediterranean Sea over a 20-year period (2003–2022) using a high-resolution (~1 km) satellite dataset. Frontal gradients were strongest in regions of freshwater in...
The dynamics of large-scale components of the Earth climate system (tipping elements), particularly the identification of their possible critical transitions and the proximity to the corresponding tipping points, has been attracting considerable atte...
Chlorophyll fronts are important to monitor and map the oceanic front, especially in the season when sea surface temperature (SST) fronts weaken. In this study, surface chlorophyll-a (chl-a) fronts in the Yellow and Bohai seas were characterized for...
This study investigated the relationship between the predicted track of Typhoon Mawar (2023) and the quasi-stationary front along the southern coast of Japan where heavy rainfall occurred. Also, the role of ocean coupling was explored by using global...
Two internal solitary waves (ISWs) with very long fronts observed by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images in the northern South China Sea (NSCS) are comparatively analyzed based on oceanic reanalysis data and the Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) theory...
Cold fronts, as one of the most frequent extreme weather events, can induce significant waves on the sea. This work analyzes the spatial and temporal variations in cold front events, especially the characteristics of wind directions during cold front...
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the major current in the Southern Ocean, isolating the warm stratified subtropical waters from the more homogeneous cold polar waters. The ACC flows from west to east around Antarctica and generates an overt...
The interaction of cold-vertically stratified (CVS) Mississippi River water with warm-horizontally stratified (WHS) Gulf of Mexico water resulted in a front that affected the oceanic surface layer. Our cross-frontal observations demonstrated two vert...
Coastal and offshore waters are generally separated by a barrier or “ocean front” on the continental shelf. A basic question arises as to what the representative spatial scale across the front may be. To answer this question, we simply co...
The southward propagation of cold-air frontal boundaries into the Gulf of Mexico region initiates a cascade of coupled air–sea processes that manifests along the coastlines as an apparent brightness anomaly in the ocean color signals. Our hypot...
The oceanic fronts play an important role in marine ecosystems and fisheries. This study investigates the seasonal variability of sea surface temperature (SST) fronts in Zhoushan and its adjacent seas for the period 1982–2021. The influences of...
The Svalbard archipelago, with its partially closed waters influenced by both oceanic conditions and large tidal glaciers, represents a prime target for understanding the effects of ongoing climate change on glaciers, oceans, and ecosystems. An under...
Here we consider the effects of surface buoyancy flux and wind stress on a front in turbulent thermal wind (TTW) balance using the framework of Crowe and Taylor (2018). The changes in the velocity and density profiles induced by the wind stress and b...
In this paper, subtidal responses of Barataria Bay to an atmospheric cold front in 2014 and Hurricane Barry of 2019 are studied. The cold fronts had shorter influencing periods (1 to 3 days), while Hurricane Barry had a much longer influencing period...
The offshore China (OC) region is a significant sea area in the Western Pacific and many researchers have been interested in the distribution of sea surface temperature (SST) fronts in this area. In this study, the Cayula and Cornillon single image e...
Sea ice extent in the Antarctica, unlike in the Arctic, did not show a decrease until 2016 under observed global warming. The aim of the study is to explain this climatic phenomenon based on the idea of joint dynamics of the Southern Ocean oceanic st...
Recent attempts to explore marine microbial diversity and the global marine microbiome have indicated a large proportion of previously unknown diversity. However, sequencing alone does not tell the whole story, as it relies heavily upon information t...
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