Wind-driven South China Sea deep basin warm-core/cool-core eddies

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 347-360

  Chu, Peter C ^a   Chen, Yuchun ^b   Lu, Shihua ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Circulation modeling; Eddy; Semienclosed sea; Wind driven circulation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CIRCULATION MODELING; EDDY; SEMIENCLOSED SEA; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0032448613     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02742619     Document Type: Article

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