Intrusion of the North Pacific waters into the South China Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 105, Issue C3, 2000, Pages 6415-6424

  Qu, Tangdong ^a   Mitsudera, Humio ^a,b,d   Yamagata, Toshio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGRAPHY; SALINITY; SEASONALITY; WATER MASS;

SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0033664422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc900323     Document Type: Article

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