Seasonal variation of volume transport in the major inflow region of the Taiwan Strait: The Penghu Channel

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 6-7, 2003, Pages 1117-1126

  Jan, Sen ^a   Chao, Shenn Yu ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; DOPPLER EFFECT; TIDES;

TIDAL CURRENTS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; INFLOW; MONSOON; SEASONAL VARIATION; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

TAIWAN; TAIWAN STRAIT;

EID: 0037269609     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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