Intraseasonal Modulation of the Surface Cooling in the Gulf of Guinea

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TMI data were produced by Remote Sensing Systems and sponsored by the NASA Earth Science REASon DISCOVER Project. TMI data are available at remss.com. We acknowledge the PIRATA Project and TAO Project Office at NOAA/PMEL for providing open access to PIRATA data. We acknowledge the provision of supercomputing facilities by the CICESE. The regional configuration was set up in cooperation with the DRAKKAR project (http:// www.drakkar-ocean.eu/). We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. 0 AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC BOSTON J PHYS OCEANOGR A regional numerical model of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and observations are analyzed to investigate the intraseasonal fluctuations of the sea surface temperature at the equator in the Gulf of Guinea. Results indicate that the seasonal cooling in this region is significantly shaped by short-duration cooling events caused by wind-forced equatorial waves: mixed Rossby- gravity waves within the 12-20-day period band, inertia gravity waves with periods below 11 days, and equatorially trapped Kelvin waves with periods between 25 and 40 days. In these different ranges of frequencies, it is shown that the wave-induced horizontal oscillations of the northern front of the mean cold tongue dominate the variations of mixed layer temperature near the equator. But the model mixed layer heat budget also shows that the equatorial waves make a significant contribution to the mixed layer heat budget through modulation of the turbulent cooling, especially above the core of the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC). The turbulent cooling variability is found to be mainly controlled by the intraseasonal modulation of the vertical shear in the upper ocean. This mechanism is maximum during periods of seasonal cooling, especially in boreal summer, when the surface South Equatorial Current is strongest and between 2 degrees S and the equator, where the presence of the EUC provides a background vertical shear in the upper ocean. It applies for the three types of intraseasonal waves. Inertia-gravity waves also modulate the turbulent heat flux at the equator through vertical displacement of the core of the EUC in response to equatorial divergence and convergence.